eBook details
- Title: City Los Angeles v. Lyons
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 20, 1983
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 89 KB
Description
This case began on February 7, 1977, when respondent, Adolph Lyons, filed a complaint for damages, injunction, and declaratory relief in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The defendants were the City of Los Angeles and four of its police officers. The complaint alleged that on October 6, 1976, at 2 a. m., Lyons was stopped by the defendant officers for a traffic or vehicle code violation and that although Lyons offered no resistance or threat whatsoever, the officers, without provocation or justification, seized Lyons and applied a "chokehold" -- either