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ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS TO DISMISS

I.

INTRODUCTION

This action is before the Court on the motion of the County of Los Angeles (“the County”) and the motion of James Chal-fant, Kathryn Doi Todd, Bruce E. Mitchell, Roger W. Boren and Michael G. Nott (“Court Defendants”) to dismiss Plaintiffs complaint. For the reasons stated herein, Defendants’ motions are GRANTED with prejudice.

II.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

This is the second federal lawsuit that Plaintiffs attorney, Richard I. Fine, has filed against state court judges and judicial officers who have issued unfavorable rulings against his clients and him.

In Los Angeles County Association of Environmental Health Specialists v. Lewin (“LACAEHS”), 215 F.Supp.2d. 1071 (C.D.Cal.2002), Mr. Fine was plaintiffs counsel in a suit filed against Superior Court Judge Kurt Lewin, who had denied him attorneys’ fees in a state court case. Mr. Fine also named the California Court of Appeal, a panel of which had affirmed Judge Lewin’s denial of fees, the Superior Court itself, and the County of Los Ange-les (“the County”), which had been the defendant in the state court action. LA-CAEHS was a thinly-veiled attempt by Mr. Fine to use…