CA9: Civil 4A case requires showing of standing, too

Plaintiff’s failure to specify his standing for an alleged Fourth Amendment violation defeats his civil claim. Sanghvi v. County of San Bernardino, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 4335 (9th Cir. Feb. 17, 2022).*

“Given the findings of fact at issue here, we hold that a reasonable officer in Mateu’s position would have known that shooting a suspect who, though armed, was trying to surrender violates the Fourth Amendment. The law prohibiting police officers from seizing ‘an unarmed, nondangerous suspect by shooting him dead’ in the absence of ‘probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a threat of serious physical harm, either to the officer or to others’ is clearly established.” Banks-Reed v. Mateu, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 4336 (9th Cir. Feb. 17, 2022).*