UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LONNIE CRAIG No. 16-16001 PATTERSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 2:12-cv-01350-MCE-CKD v.

CITY OF YUBA CITY, ORDER CERTIFYING Defendant-Appellee. QUESTION TO THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT

Filed March 7, 2018

Before: William A. Fletcher and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges, and Claudia Wilken,* District Judge.

* The Honorable Claudia Wilken, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, sitting by designation. 2 PATTERSON V. CITY OF YUBA

SUMMARY**

Civil Rights

The panel certified the following question to the California Supreme Court:

Does a finding of probable cause at a preliminary hearing preclude a false arrest claim?

The panel withdrew the case from submission and stayed further proceedings pending final act