Olsen

Olsen v. Idaho State Board of Medicine

Good Law
363 F.3d 916
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitApril 7, 2004No. 02-35796California7,027 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Trott, J.

Loma A. Olsen brought this action against the Idaho State Board of Medicine (“Board”), the Idaho State Board of *919 Professional Discipline (“BOPD”), the individual members and counsel of the Board and BOPD, and the Executive Director of the Board (collectively “appel-lees”), alleging both state law and federal statutory and constitutional violations. Specifically, Olsen alleges that beginning in 1996, appellees engaged in a protracted administrative process motivated by religious discrimination, which precluded the reinstatement of her physician assistant’s license, and thereby deprived her of her equal protection and due process rights, as secured by the United States Constitution. Accordingly, Olsen brought suit, asserting claims under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 , 1985 and Idaho state law.

The district court granted appellees’ motion for summary judgment and dismissed Olsen’s claims. Because the district court correctly ruled that appellees are functionally comparable to judges and prosecutors and are accordingly entitled to the protections of absolute immunity for their quasi-judicial and quasi-prosecutorial acts, we affirm. We conclude also that none of appellees’ alleged…

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