Wilson

MEMORANDUM **

Appellant Keith Chandler appeals the district court’s dismissal of his § 1983 civil rights action. We affirm.

Defendants Giaquinto and Bentley are entitled to quasi-judicial immunity for adjudicatory functions they perform as members of the parole board. Sellars v. Procunier, 641 F.2d 1295, 1302-03 (9th Cir. 1981). Chandler urges that we reconsider this ruling, but we are not free, as a three-judge panel, to overrule circuit precedent. *918 See Hart v. Massanari, 266 F.3d 1155, 1171 (9th Cir.2001). Chandler also argues that the defendants are not entitled to quasi-judicial immunity because they abdicated them discretion and followed Governor Wilson’s politically motivated orders to deny parole to all convicted murderers. The Sellars court acknowledged the risk that absolute immunity for parole board members would leave “the genuinely wronged prisoner without civil redress against the official whose malicious or dishonest actions deprive the prisoner of liberty.” Sellars, 641 F.2d at 1303 . Nevertheless, the court held that the risk of unredressable civil rights violations was outweighed by the need to protect parole board members from the threat of lawsuits and the…