Source: http://openjurist.org/print/138065
Timestamp: 2014-07-23 06:21:23
Document Index: 790261769

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 203', '§ 245', '§ 1343', '§ 1983', '§ 1291', '§ 825']

439 F2d 1285 Ney v. State of California F C
439 F2d 1285 Ney v. State of California F C 439 F.2d 1285
Irving Eugene NEY, Appellant,v.STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Lawrence F. Pickett, Keith C. Sorenson, et al., Appellees.
No. 26516.
Rehearings Denied April 20, 1971.
Irving Eugene Ney, in pro. per.
Michael J. Brady, of Ropers, Majeski, Kohn, Bentley & Wagner, Redwood City, Cal., Donald W. Malouf, of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, San Francisco, Cal., for appellees.
Before HAMLEY, DUNIWAY and KILKENNY, Circuit Judges.
Ney is a prisoner of the State of California, having been convicted of mayhem (Cal.Pen.C. § 203) and assault with a deadly weapon (id., § 245). The offenses occurred on June 28, 1964; judgment of conviction was entered on November 6, 1964. The facts are stated in the opinion of the California District Court of Appeal, affirming the conviction. People v. Ney, 1965, 238 Cal.App. 2d 785, 48 Cal.Rptr. 265.
On February 26, 1969, Ney filed this action in the United States District Court. He attempts to state claims under the Civil Rights Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1343; 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ff. Named defendants are the State of California, Keith C. Sorenson, District Attorney of San Mateo County, and Lawrence F. Pickett, Chief of Police of the City of Millbrae, California, where the offense occurred. No others are named in the caption of the complaint or Amendment filed by Ney. Rule 10(a), F.R.Civ.P. The District Court entered separate judgments dismissing the action as against each defendant; together, they dispose of the entire action (cf. Rule 54(b) F.R.Civ.P.), and we have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291.
The judgment rests on a determination, as to all defendants, that the complaint does not state a claim upon which relief can be granted. As to Pickett, there are additional grounds stated: that the claim is barred by the California Tort Claims Act (Cal.Govt.Code §§ 825, 911.2, 950.2); that Ney's prior conviction "acts as res judicata to the complaint"; that Ney's complaint is analogous to a cause of action for malicious prosecution and is barred because of his conviction.