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Nature of Suit Code: 950
Nature of Suit: Contitutionality of State Statutes
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BEN W. ALLUSTIARTE, et al., No. CIV.S-05-2284 DFL DAD PS

Plaintiffs,

v. ORDER AMENDING FINDINGS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS

UNITED STATES, et al.,

Defendants.

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On March 9, 2006, the undersigned issued an order and

findings and recommendations recommending that defendant W. Austin

Cooper’s motion to dismiss be granted and that plaintiffs Ben and

Linda Allustiarte be granted leave to amend only with respect to the

non-judicial defendants. On March 10, 2006, defendant Cooper filed a

request for clarification, pointing out that he was inadvertently

omitted from the order clause and requesting that he be dismissed

with prejudice since he is a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee

entitled to quasi judicial immunity and against whom an action cannot

be brought without prior leave of the Bankruptcy Court.

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 Nonetheless, plaintiffs should take those arguments under 1

consideration in determining whether to pursue filing an amended

complaint naming attorney Cooper as a defendant.

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Defendant Cooper is correct in noting that he was 

inadvertently not mentioned in the order clause of the March 9, 2006, 

order and findings and recommendations. The undersigned intended

that, in the abundance of caution, plaintiffs Ben and Linda

Allustiarte be granted leave to file an amended complaint naming

defendant Cooper as well. Defendant Cooper may well be correct that

he is entitled to quasi judicial immunity and that under the law an

action cannot be maintained against him in this court absent the

prior leave of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. However, neither those

arguments nor any underlying factual basis for them were presented in

his motion to dismiss. 

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Accordingly, paragraph 2 of the recommendations clause of

the Order and Findings and Recommendations filed on March 9, 2006, is

hereby modified to read as follows:

2. Plaintiffs Ben W. Allustiarte and Linda M. Allustiarte 

be granted leave to file an amended complaint as to defendants W.

Austin Cooper, Dennis M. Hauser, Edward Briseno, Melvin J. CoBen and

Martin B. Briffman only.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: March 15, 2006.

DAD:th

Ddad1/orders.prose/allustiarte2284.f&r.amend

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