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CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO v. SHEEHAN

No. 13-1412.

135 S.Ct. 1765 (2015)

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, et al., Petitioners v. Teresa SHEEHAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 18, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christine Van Aken, San Francisco, CA, for petitioners.

Ian H. Gershengorn for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting vacatur in part and reversal in part.

Leonard Feldman, Seattle, WA, for respondent.

Dennis J. Herrera, City Attorney, Christine Van Aken, Chief of Appellate Litigation, Peter J. Keith, Counsel of Record, Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioners.

Ben Nisenbaum, Law Offices of John Burris, Oakland, CA, Jill D. Bowman, Hunter O. Ferguson, Stoel Rives LLP, Seattle, WA, Leonard J. Feldman, Counsel of Record, Peterson Wampold, Rosato Luna Knopp, Seattle, WA, for Respondent.

ALITO, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ROBERTS, C.J., and KENNEDY, THOMAS, GINSBURG, and SOTOMAYOR, JJ., joined. SCALIA, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which KAGAN, J., joined. BREYER, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

We granted certiorari to consider two questions relating to the manner in which San Francisco police officers arrested a woman who was suffering from a mental illness and had become violent. After reviewing the parties' submissions, we dismiss the first question as improvidently granted. We decide...

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