Legal Opinion
Abdullah Dohaish v. Dale Tooley
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 16, 1982No. 81-1607PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge.
The appellant herein seeks reversal of a judgment of the District Court for the District of Colorado which dismissed an action which sought to compel the State District Attorney, Dale Tooley, to prosecute a man who allegedly killed appellant Dohaish’s son. The district court dismissed the action against Tooley, finding that Dohaish lacked standing and secondly, that Tooley, as the prosecuting attorney in the case, was immune from suit.
The facts are these. Saud Dohaish, a Saudi Arabian student, was admitted to the United States in 1977 for the purpose of…
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