Leroy Stewart v. Vesta Minnick, Official Court Reporter

We affirm the District Court’s order dismissing appellant’s civil rights complaint (42 U.S.C. § 1983).

Appellant sued the State of California, a court reporter, and a court clerk, complaining that the appellees refused to furnish him with that portion of his state criminal trial transcript containing the prosecutor’s closing argument to the jury.

The State is not amenable to suit under the civil rights statute (Williford v. People of California (9th Cir. 1965) 352 F.2d 474); the acts charged to the individual appellees were acts performed in their capacity as quasi-judicial officers and they…