Legal Opinion
Donald Duane Johnson and Leo Roll v. Ronald Reagan, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of California
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 20, 1975No. 74-2790PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiffs, prisoners in state custody, appeal from the dismissal of their civil-rights action for damages. They alleged that the California Adult Authority had failed to grant them parole or sentence determination, in violation of the “principles and ideas” of the California Indeterminate Sentence Law (Cal.Penal Code § 1168), and that the other named defendants, all state officials, had violated their oaths of office by permitting the Authority so to act.
Named as defendants were the members of Adult Authority, the Governor, all justices of the state supreme court, the state attorney general,…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Scheuer v. RhodesSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Pierson v. RaySupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Tenney v. BrandhoveSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- People v. WingoCalifornia Supreme Court · 1975
- Michael Arthur Donovan v. Earl Reinbold and Harley Askew, Michael Arthur Donovan v. Earl Reinbold and Harley AskewCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1970
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3Cited by44 opinions
- Salvatore G. Crisafi v. George E. HollandCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1981
- Pedro Pino v. Patrick Ryan, Deputy Superintendent of Programs, and David Barrenger, Senior Recreation Supervisor at Washington Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1995
- John Houston Sellars v. Raymond K. ProcunierCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1981
- Hutchinson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
- Wynn v. National Broadcasting Co., Inc.District Court, C.D. California · 2002
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