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SCHMIDT v. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY

No. 11-15563.

693 F.3d 1122 (2012)

Denise SCHMIDT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY; Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts; Contra Costa Superior Court; Laurel Brady; Thomas Maddock; Lois Haight; Barry Baskin; Ken Torre, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 10, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geoffrey M. Faust , Clayton, CA, for plaintiff-appellant Denise Schmidt.

Joseph E. Wiley (argued), Suzanne I. Price , and Joan Pugh Newman , Wiley Price & Radulovich, LLP, Alameda, CA, for defendants-appellees Torre, Maddock, Brady, Haight, and Baskin.

Sharon L. Anderson , County Counsel, Monika L. Cooper (argued), Supervising Deputy County Counsel, Contra Costa County, Martinez, CA, for defendant-appellee Contra Costa County.

Before: RICHARD A. PAEZ and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges, and SARAH S. VANCE, Chief District Judge.

OPINION

PAEZ, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Denise Schmidt alleges that she broke an unwritten rule and suffered the consequences when she challenged a sitting superior court judge for his seat in a local election while she was serving as a temporary superior court commissioner. Schmidt lost her March 2004 election bid against an incumbent judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa ("Superior Court"). Soon after, the Superior Court's Executive...

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