Eldon O. Haldane v. Donald Ruppe

Appellant sought below to declare fraudulent certain State Court decisions, and District and Circuit holdings; and to seek $24,000,000 in damages from certain defendants.

The litigation in the State of California arose out of a petition to declare appellant mentally ill filed in 1961. (Ex. A, attached to Complaint — C.T. p. 17). The appellant was found not mentally ill, and the petition dismissed. (Ex. A, attached to Complaint, C.T. p. 22).

He then sought damages unsuccessfully in the state courts, claiming a violation of his civil rights.

This is the fifth case filed in the Federal Courts by plaintiff for the alleged violation of his civil rights. In dismissing it, Judge Peirson Hall in the District Court wrote:

Much of this case has thus been before this Court of Appeals. In Haldane v. Chagnon (No. 19370), 345 F.2d 601 (1965), we held that defendants Allen Miller and then defendant Lloyd Nix, each Superior Court Judges, had judicial immunity for their acts done in the performance of their judicial duties. We held also that Bailiff Wilfred H. Tomlin, acting at the direction of a judge performing a lawful act, was also entitled to judicial immunity. We likewise held also that…