United States First Circuit

In civil rights action against defendant-state officials by plaintiff whose position was terminated pursuant to a consent agreement between defendants and his employer following investigation into the company's sales practices, judgment dismissing complaint is affirmed, where: 1) the state officials carried their burden in establishing they are entitled to absolute immunity for entering into the consent agreements with plaintiff and his employer; 2) the district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to invoke the doctrine of judicial estoppel; and 3) the 1985(2) claim was properly dismissed because it failed to allege any racial, or otherwise class-based, invidiously discriminatory animus underlying the state officials' actions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/04/2013
• Published 01/04/2013

Judges

• THOMPSON

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel