Tovar v. Billmeyer

609 F.2d 1291 Joseph TOVAR and Deborah Ann Moore, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. C. G. BILLMEYER, Melvin Morgan, F. W. "Bill" Roskelley, John Evans, Les Purce, Donna Boe, Earl Pond, Wayne Ellis, and the City of Pocatello, an Idaho Municipal Corporation, Defendants-Appellees. No. 77-2929. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Nov. 6, 1979. Rehearing Denied Jan. 10, 1980. Robert J. Hirsch, Hirsch & Shiner, P. C., Tucson, Ariz., for plaintiffs-appellants. L. Charles Johnson, Pocatello, Idaho, for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Idaho. Before TRASK and SNEED, Circuit Judges, and SOLOMON * , District Judge. SNEED, Circuit Judge: 1 Appellants Tovar and Moore appeal from a dismissal of their action against the appellees by the district court. The dismissal was based on a version of the abstention doctrine that the district court derived from Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States, 424 U.S. 800 , 96 S.Ct. 1236 , 47 L.Ed.2d 483 (1976); Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 , 91 S.Ct. 746 , 27 L.Ed.2d 669 (1971); and Juidice v. Vail, 430 U.S. 327 , 97 S.Ct. 1211 , 51 L.Ed.2d 376 (1977). We hold that the district…