Lebbos v. Judges of Superior Court, Santa Clara County

883 F.2d 810 Aida Madeleine LEBBOS; Garth Rease; C. Jonlyn Karr; Betsey Warren Lebbos; Genyses Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. JUDGES OF the SUPERIOR COURT, SANTA CLARA COUNTY; Conrad Rushing, Judge of the Santa Clara Superior Court; Jack Komar, Judge of the Santa Clara Superior Court; Peter Stone, Judge of the Santa Clara Superior Court; John Miller; Mary Ann Grilli; V. Timothy Keene; Lisa Wharton; Jeradlin Spradlin; Linda Wooten; Alan Munn, Defendants-Appellees. No. 87-2105. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted March 14, 1989. Decided Aug. 28, 1989. Betsey Warren Lebbos, San Jose, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants. Vanessa Ann Zecher, Deputy County Counsel, San Jose, Cal., John Miller, Palo Alto, Cal., for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before POOLE, FERGUSON and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges. WIGGINS, Circuit Judge: 1 Appellants appeal the district court's dismissal of their suit for failure to state a claim and based on the Younger abstention doctrine. This action springs from the appointment by Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Conrad Rushing of appellee Alan Munn as…