United States Ninth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's section 1983 claim is reversed where defendant-district attorneys are not shielded by prosecutorial immunity since their acts are not within the scope of their prosecutorial functions and are not closely associated with the judicial process.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/16/2005
• Decided 06/23/2005
• Published 06/23/2005

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  NOONAN, THOMAS and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Diane K. Vaillancourt, Santa Cruz, California, and Terri Keyser-Cooper, Reno, Nevada, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory R. Shannon and Richard A. Gammick, Reno, Nevada, for the defendants-appellees.