![]() ![]() On Monday temperatures were in the high 80s in New York, and well above 90 degrees F (32 C) in parts of Los Angeles, where some afternoon pickets were called off because of the extreme heat.Ī union rally was planned for later in the day in Atlanta, where many productions have moved in recent years because of tax breaks and other lower costs. “I’m on strike two times, which means I have to walk double the steps, which is hard, but I’m willing to do it.” “It’s been amazing to be out here now that we have the second wind of SAG members coming,” said Paul Scheer, who was already striking as a writer, and is now doing the same as an actor, outside Netflix headquarters in Hollywood. Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) voted unanimously on Thursday that when their contract expired they would start striking the following day, joining the Writers Guild of America, who walked out on May 2. So it’s been a really beautiful sense of community.” 409, 430 (1976)).“I don’t think people necessarily realize the energy that writers and actors have,” Cox said outside Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, “and the stamina, and our ability to commit, that’s all our entire job is about is just committing to something and following through. 3 Because the prosecutors engaged only "in activities `intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process,'" they were entitled to absolute immunity. To the contrary, the facts established indisputably that Oh and Hovatter did not step out of their prosecutorial roles, but rather exercised independent judgment in deciding to file the charges against Karam. The error was rendered harmless, however, by the district court subsequently determining on summary judgment that there was no evidence that the prosecutors took any part in the investigation. 2003) (prosecutor "performing investigatory or administrative functions" entitled to only qualified immunity). This allegation was sufficient to plead that Oh and Hovatter were functioning as investigating officers thus, their dismissal by the district court pursuant to Rule 12(b) (6) on the basis of absolute immunity was improper. 1992) (discussing the ways in which municipal liability may be established under Monell). There is no evidence that Karam's prosecution was due to any city policy, practice or custom or was instigated at the behest of any official policymaker. However, the council member who testified as to these matters stated that, to his recollection, none of the four critics whose police reports he received had ever been prosecuted. She argues this evidence suggests that her prosecution was pursuant to a governmental policy. She asserts that the city council had a practice of circulating among council members police reports pertaining to the council's critics, and that the council shared informal complaints about "gadflies" and "loonies" who made comments at council meetings. ![]() ![]() § 1983 for constitutional violations caused by an official policy, practice or custom). 658, 694 (1978) (city may only be held liable under 42 U.S.C. ![]() Karam contends she presented sufficient evidence to create at least a triable issue of fact on her allegation that, as a matter of official policy, practice or custom, the City issued, or caused to be issued, false police reports to secure the arrest of persons who criticized the city council. ![]()
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