UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MICHELE SANTOPIETRO, No. 14-16324 Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. v. 2:12-cv-01648- JCM-PAL CLAYBORN HOWELL, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Officer, Badge 9034; KRISTINE OPINION CRAWFORD, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Officer, Badge 10050; FRANCISCO LOPEZ-ROSENDE, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Officer, Badge 8864, Defendants-Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada James C. Mahan, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted July 8, 2016 San Francisco, California

Filed May 24, 2017 2 SANTOPIETRO V. HOWELL

Before: Marsha S. Berzon, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges, and Dana L. Christensen,* Chief District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Berzon

SUMMARY**

Civil Rights

The panel reversed, in part, the distric