On July 14, 2026, a divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled that an Elko police officer cannot be sued for damages over baton strikes during a November 2022 arrest. Our firm was not involved in this case, Smith v. Olvera. According to the court, the man led police on a six-minute chase at night that ended in a crash. Once he was out of his truck, the officer struck him repeatedly with a baton, breaking his arm. The court accepted, for purposes of the ruling, that he was also hit in
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