Officers Entitled to Qualified Immunity for Using Lethal Force against Erratically-Behaving Suspect Who Charges Them with Stabbing Weapon

In Vos v. City of Newport Beach, pubilshed June 11, 2018, a divided panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed in part and reversed in part summary judgment granted to a city and two of its police officers in a police shooting case. Because the undersigned's firm represented the defendants in the case, the undersigned will refer readers to the text of the case rather than summarizing the holding.

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