# In Re Complaint of Judicial Misconduct

> Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · May 5, 2004 · 366 F.3d 963

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9496959

## Case

- **Full name:** In Re COMPLAINT OF JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- **Decided:** May 5, 2004
- **Citations:** 366 F.3d 963; 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 8810; 2004 WL 951473
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Kleinfeld
- **Judges:** Alarcón, Kozinski, Kleinfeld, Tashima, Fletcher, Patel, Coughenour, Ezra, Shanstrom, Levi
- **Cited by:** 11 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that while “administrative functions” generally include “[p]ersonnel decisions,” they do not include events that “arose directly and immediately out of a confrontation with the judge in his or her official capacity”
- explaining that “administrative functions” include “[p]ersonnel decisions,” as opposed to events that “arose directly and immediately out of a confrontation with the judge in his or her official capacity”

## Opinion text

KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge,
concurring in the result:
I concur in the result reached by the majority. Rather than deciding as a general matter whether judicial misconduct can be found in routine personnel decisions, I would affirm the Chief Judge’s decision for the reasons she gave.

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