No. 22-1245

Brent A. Ristow v. Douglas R. Peterson, et al.

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2023-06-28
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response WaivedRelisted (3)
Tags: administrative-law bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process individual-capacity prosecutorial-immunity standing
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2023-12-08 (distributed 3 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether state civil administrative agency staff, in prosecuting an application to their agency for a license, are acting in the character of the criminal prosecutor described by this court in Imbler v. Pachiman, 424 US 409 (1976), or as civil administrators?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Whether state civil administrative agency staff, in prosecuting an application to their agency for a license, are acting in the character of the criminal prosecutor described by this court in Imbler v. Pachiman, 424 US 409 (1976), or as civil administrators? Whether the Opinion of this court in Willner v. Committee on Character and Fitness, 373 U.S. 96 (1963) is effective to the extent that an applicant for a state law license has due process rights in the application? Whether the bad faith of the defendants can be so poisonous as to convert an expressly declared individual capacity action into an official capacity , action? Whether absolute immunity is available as a defense in an individual capacity action, for the bad faith acts of state civil administrative agency staff that cause the deprivation of a constitutional right, like those described by this court in its Opinion in Willner v. Committee on Character and Fitness, 373 U.S. 96 (1963), of an applicant to the agency?

Docket Entries

2023-12-11
Rehearing DENIED.
2023-12-01
Rescheduled.
2023-12-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/8/2023.
2023-11-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/1/2023.
2023-10-27
2023-10-02
Petition DENIED.
2023-08-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/26/2023.
2023-07-19
Waiver of right of respondents Douglas Peterson, Thomas Boyd, Juan Hoyos, et al. to respond filed.
2023-06-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 28, 2023)

Attorneys

Brent A. Ristow
Brent Ristow — Petitioner
Brent Ristow — Petitioner
Douglas Peterson, Thomas Boyd, Juan Hoyos, et al.
Jennifer Olson — Respondent
Jennifer Olson — Respondent