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MARTINEZ v. CALIFORNIA

No. 78-1268.

444 U.S. 277 (1980)

100 S.Ct. 553

62 L.Ed.2d 481

MARTINEZ ET AL. v. CALIFORNIA ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 15, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald McGrath II argued the cause for appellants. With him on the brief was Walter P. Christensen.

Jeffrey T. Miller, Deputy Attorney General of California, argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief were George Deukmejian, Attorney General, and Robert L. Bergman, Assistant Attorney General.*

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed by Solicitor General McCree, Acting Assistant Attorney General Daniel, Robert E. Kopp, and Barbara L. Herwig for the United States; by John J. Degnan, Attorney General, and Erminie L. Conley, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of New Jersey; and by William J. Brown, Attorney General, and Simon B. Karas, George Stricker, Jr., and Dennis L. Sipe, Assistant Attorneys General, for the State of Ohio.

MR. JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The two federal questions that appellants ask us to decide are (1) whether the Fourteenth Amendment invalidates a California statute granting absolute immunity to public employees who make parole-release determinations, and (2) whether such officials are absolutely immune from liability in an action brought under the federal Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U. S. C. §...

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