United States Ninth Circuit

The Governor of California is entitled to absolute quasi-judicial immunity for his reversal of a parole board's grant of parole where he erroneously extends his authority to review parole decisions to an individual convicted of conspiracy to commit murder.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2007
• Decided 04/02/2008
• Published 04/02/2008

Judges

• REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  D.W. NELSON and STEPHEN REINHARDT, Circuit Judges, and LOUIS F. OBERDORFER, Senior Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Hamlish, Westlake Village, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General for the State of California;  James M. Humes, Chief Assistant Attorney General;  Frances T. Grunder, Senior Assistant Attorney General;  and Thomas Patterson and Rene L. Lucaric, Supervising Deputy Attorneys General, for defendants-appellees, Davis, Schwarzenegger, Rich, Duncan, BPH, CDCR, Ortega, Gillis, Lushcough, Koenig, Bordonaro, and Bentley.