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LARSEN v. SENATE OF COM. OF PA.

No. 97-7153.

154 F.3d 82 (1998)

Rolf LARSEN v. SENATE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA; Roy C. Afflerbach; Anthony B. Andrezeski; Gibson E. Armstrong; Earl Baker; Albert Belan; Clarence D. Bell; Leonard J. Bodack; Michael E. Bortner; David J. Brightbill; J. Doyle Corman; Michael M. Dawida; Michael B.Fisher; Vincent J. Fumo; Stewart J. Greenleaf; Melissa A. Hart; David W. Heckler; Edward W.Helfrick; Edwin G. Holl; Roxanne H. Jones; Robert C. Jubelirer; Gerald J. Lavalle; Charles D. Lemmond, Jr.; H. Craig Lewis; J. William Lincoln; F. Joseph Loeper; Roger A.Madigan; Bruce S. Marks; Robert J. Mellow; Harold F. Mowery, Jr.; Raphael J. Musto; Michael A. O'Pake; Frank A. Pecora; John E.Peterson; Eugene E. Porterfield; Terry L. Punt; Jeanette F. Reibman; James J. Rhoades; Robert D. Robbins; Frank A. Salvatore; Allyson Y. Schwartz; Tim Shaffer; John J.Shumaker; Patrick J. Stapleton, William J.Stewart; J. Barry Stout; Richard Tilghman; Jackwagner; Noah W. Wenger; Hardy Williams; Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania; Robert Nix; John Flaherty; Stephen Zappala; Nicholas Papadakos; Ralph Cappy; Frank Montemuro; Ronald Castille; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline; Joseph F. Mccloskey; William F. Burns; Dawson R. Muth; Peter Depaul; Carol K.Mcginley, Christine L. Donohue; Justin M. Johnson; William Cassenbaum; Judicial Conduct Board; Joseph A. Del Sole; Arthur J. Edmunds; Diane M. Edmundson; Gerald P. Egan; John W. Herron; Frederick Wells Hill; Matthew Anita Macdonald; Gerald J. O'Connor; Andrew Palm; Charles W. Rubendall, II; James E. Russo, Bernard C. Watson; William J. Arbuckle, III; Bruce A. Antkowiak; Thomas A. Bergstrom; Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts; Nancy M. Sobolevitch; David A. Frankforter, In Their Official and Individual Capacities; Individual Senators Chief Justice Robert N.C. Nix (retired), Chief Justice John Flaherty, Associate Justices Stephen Zappala, Nicholas Ronald Castille, and Judge Frank Montemuro, The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, Nancy M. Sobolevitch and David A. Frankforter, Appellants

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided August 11, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arlin M. Adams (argued), Joseph T. Lukens, Michael J. Barry, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, L.L.P., Philadelphia, PA, for Individual Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Arthur G. Raynes, Harold I. Goodman Stephen E. Raynes, Raynes, McCarty, Binder Ross & Mundy, Philadelphia, PA for Individual Administrative Office Defendants.

Cletus P. Lyman (argued), Michael S. Fettner, Lyman & Ash, Philadelphia, PA, for Rolf Larsen.

BEFORE: SLOVITER, GREENBERG, and GIBSON, Circuit Judges

OPINION OF THE COURT

GREENBERG, Circuit Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Appellants, present and former justices and court administrators of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, appeal from the district court's February 28, 1997 order denying their motion to dismiss appellee Rolf Larsen's claims against them on qualified immunity grounds. The district court had jurisdiction over Larsen's claims pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1331 and 28 U.S.C. § 1343 as...

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