United States Ninth Circuit

The administrative head of a county public defender's office qualified as a state actor under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, for a policy leading to denial of effective representation of counsel, but an assistant public defender was not a state actor in representing a defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/03/2003
• Published 02/03/2003

Judges

• Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, SNEED, PREGERSON, REINHARDT, T.G. NELSON, KLEINFELD, HAWKINS, THOMAS, SILVERMAN, WARDLAW and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roy A. Jacobson, Jr., Jackson, WY, for the plaintiff-appellant., J. Douglas McCalla, Spence, Moriarity & Schuster, Jackson, WY, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas D. Beatty, Law Offices of Thomas D. Beatty, Las Vegas, NV, for the defendants-appellees., Gloria J. Sturman, Edwards, Hale, Sturman, Atkin & Cushing, Ltd., Las Vegas, NV, for the defendants-appellees., Janson F. Stewart, Chief Deputy District Attorney, Las Vegas, NV, for the defendants-appellees.