United States Ninth Circuit

A Ch. 13 Bankruptcy Trustee and her assistant enjoy absolute quasi-judicial immunity from liability for the decision to schedule a bankruptcy confirmation hearing, and that immunity extends to the failure to give notice of the hearing.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/09/2001
• Decided 07/26/2002
• Published 07/26/2002

Judges

• WARDLAW, Circuit Judge., Before: BRUNETTI, RYMER and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elmer Dean Martin III, Diamond Bar, CA, for the appellant., E. Roy Hawkens, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for the amicus.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce A. Lindsay, Moss, Hovden & Lindsay, Whittier, CA, for the debtor-appellee., G. Thomas Leonard, Attorney Propria Persona, Fullerton, CA, appellee.