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MIRANDA v. CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA

No. 00-15734.

319 F.3d 465 (2003)

Roberto Hernandez MIRANDA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA; Morgan Harris; Thomas Rigsby, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 3, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy A. Jacobson, Jr., Jackson, WY, for the plaintiff-appellant.

J. Douglas McCalla, Spence, Moriarity & Schuster, Jackson, WY, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas D. Beatty, Law Offices of Thomas D. Beatty, Las Vegas, NV, for the defendants-appellees.

Gloria J. Sturman, Edwards, Hale, Sturman, Atkin & Cushing, Ltd., Las Vegas, NV, for the defendants-appellees.

Janson F. Stewart, Chief Deputy District Attorney, Las Vegas, NV, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, SNEED, PREGERSON, REINHARDT, T.G. NELSON, KLEINFELD, HAWKINS, THOMAS, SILVERMAN, WARDLAW and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Chief Judge SCHROEDER; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge KLEINFELD; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge SILVERMAN.

SCHROEDER, Chief Judge.

We took this case en banc to consider whether the head of a county public defender's office, as the administrative head of an organization formed to represent criminal defendants, may be held accountable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a policy that leads to a denial of an individual...

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