* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 thCir. R. 36-3. NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MARY COTTON, individually and in her capacity as Successor-in-Interest for decedent Russell Dene Cotton; et al., Plaintiffs - Appellants, and PATRICK COTTON, Plaintiff,

v. ANTHONY MARTINEZ; et al., Defendants - Appellees, and COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, a public entity; et al., Defendants. No. 10-55975 D.C. No. 2:03-cv-07652-PSG-RZ

MEMORANDUM * 

# FILED

JUL 30 2012 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). 2 Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Philip S. Gutierrez, District Judge, Presiding Submitted January 10, 2012 ** San Francisco, California Before: SCHROEDER, WARDLAW, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges. Following a jury verdict rejecting all but one of the civil rights claims brought by Russell Cotton’s wife and daughters (“the Cottons”) and the court’s declaration of a mistrial on the last claim, the Cottons appeal several of the district court’s rulings. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm the district court. I. The district court did not err by limiting the Cottons’ claims against individual Psychiatric Health Facility (“PH F”) defendants to solely Dr. Lunianski. When this appeal was last before us, su mmary judgment had been granted to all the PHF employees named in the Cottons’ complaint, and discovery had been cut-off with the exception of a small number of specifically-enumerated depositions that the Cottons delayed taking. The Cottons ’ previous appeal challenged only the district court’s grant of summary judgment as to Dr. Lunianski and the PHF on3 their deliberate indifference claims. Ther efore we had no other individuals before us and did not require the district cour t to add additional PHF defendants. The district court was “free [to make its own decision] as to anything not foreclosed by the mandate,” Cassett v. Steward , 406 F.3d 614, 621 (9th Cir. 2005), and its decision to limit the Cottons to claims ag ainst Dr. Lunianski was neither contrary to our mandate nor erroneous, given the Cottons’ failure to appeal the summary judgments granted to the other PHF defendants and the lack of evidence establishing viable claims against them. II. The district court did not abuse its discretion in deciding that it could not evaluate the relevance of the internal jail policies that the Cottons sought to admit. The Cottons failed to provide the district court with information necessary to determine whether particular ja il policies were relevant under Scott v. Henrich , 39 F.3d 912, 915–16 (9th Cir. 1994), which held that internal policies or procedures are relevant to an excessive force dete rmination only “when one of their purposes is to protect the individual against whom force is used.” III. The district court’s exclusion of eviden ce of alleged violations of California Welfare & Institutions Code §§ 5150 and 5150.1 under Federal Rule of Evidence4 403 was within the court’s wide discretion. See United States v. Abel , 469 U.S. 45, 54 (1984). The district court did not abuse its discretion in determining that evidence of violations of §§ 5150 and 5150.1 could confuse the jury about whether the Cottons had made the separate show ing required for deliberate indifference. See Kanekoa v. City & Cnty. of Honolulu , 879 F.2d 607, 613–14 (9th Cir. 1989) (“Trial judges are better able to sense the dynamics of a trial than we can ever be, and broad discretion must be accorded th em in balancing probative value against prejudice.”) (quoting Longenecker v. General Motors Corp. , 594 F.2d 1283, 1286 (9th Cir. 1979)). IV. The district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing a 10-hour per side trial limit for direct and cross-examinations and 30-minute limit on opening statements, especially as th e court repeatedly allocatedthe Cottons extra time for cross-examination despite expiration of the trial limit. See Zivkovic v. S. California Edison Co. , 302 F.3d 1080, 1088 (9th Cir. 2002). Appellants fail to demonstrate that the district court’s “admonishments” were improper or prejudicial. See United States v. Scott , 642 F.3d 791, 799 (9th Cir. 2011). AFFIRMED.