Lee v. City of Los Angeles
- Decided
- May 4, 2001
- Docket
- No. 98-55807
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
Cited 2,878 timesOverruled on other grounds (verified)Overruled on other grounds (verified) · Bonner v. Medical Board of California
What later courts said
- holding that a court may take judicial notice of "matters of public record” that are not subject to reasonable dispute — John Teixeira v. County of Alameda (2017)
- holding that a court can take judicial notice of "matters of public record" but cannot credit the disputed factual assertions therein as true — Wilson v. Playtika, Ltd. (2018)
- holding that the district court erred by relying on extrinsic evidence when ruling 10 on a motion to dismiss — Radware, Inc. v. U.S. Telepacific Corp. d/b/a TPX Communications (2020)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
ORDER WITHDRAWING OPINION AND OPINION PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:
ORDER The mandate issued April 5, 2001, is hereby recalled. The Opinion filed February 14, 2001 is withdrawn.
OPINION This case arises out of the wrongful arrest, extradition, and incarceration of Kerry Sanders, a mentally disabled Los Angeles resident. Employees of the City of Los Angeles (“City”) and New York State Department of Correctional Services (“NYSDCS”) incorrectly identified Kerry Sanders as the fugitive Robert Sanders, a convicted embezzler who absconded from a New York state-prison work-release program. As a result, Kerry Sanders was extradited from California to New York in October 1993 and incarcerated in a New York state prison until October 1995, when NYSDCS officials learned that the real Robert Sanders had been arrested by federal drug enforcement agents in another jurisdiction. Had defendants at any time [*677] compared Kerry Sanders’s fingerprints or other identifying characteristics with those of Robert Sanders, or had defendants in any other way verified the identity of the man they had in custody, Kerry Sanders would not have been arrested, extradited, or incarcerated as Robert Sanders.
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Lee v. City of Los Angeles, 250 F.3d 668 (2001)Read the full opinion
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