UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

TENTH CIRCUIT

ALI MEHDIPOUR,

Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

JAMES S. MATTHEWS, JR., Private Attorney; NANCY COATS, Judge, individually and in her official capacity as Oklahoma County District Court Judge; NILES JACKSON, Judge, individually and in his official capacity as Oklahoma County District Court Judge,

Defendant-Appellees.	No. 01-6135

(D.C. No. 01-CV-214)

(W.D. Okla.)

ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

Before EBEL, KELLY and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Oklahoma state prisoner Ali Mehdipour brought the present pro se action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Mehdipour was the plaintiff in a prior real estate dispute, and he hired attorney James Matthews to represent him. Mehdipour later fired Matthews, retained new counsel, and prevailed in the real estate dispute before the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Matthews obtained a judgment from Oklahoma County District Court Judge Nancy Coats for attorney's fees and costs, and, after judgment had been entered in Mehdipour's favor by the supreme court in the real estate dispute, Matthews successfully petitioned the county district court to add Matthews to the caption of Mehdipour's real estate action in order to assert his claim for attorney's fees against the judgment. Mehdipour responded by filing one suit before Oklahoma County District Court Judge Niles Jackson alleging that Matthews and Judge Coats had violated his rights, and a second suit before Judge Jackson alleging that Matthews had defrauded him. Each of these suits was dismissed, and Mehdipour brought the present § 1983 action against Matthews, Coats, and Jackson, alleging a conspiracy to deprive him of his property.

The court below dismissed Mehdipour's claims. It held that defendants Coats and Jackson were entitled to absolute judicial immunity because they had not acted "without any colorable claim of jurisdiction." Snell v. Tunnell, 920 F.2d 673, 686 (10th Cir. 1990). It further held that defendant Matthews was not subject to suit under § 1983 because Mehdipour had failed adequately to allege a conspiracy with state actors. On appeal, Mehdipour conclusorily asserts that the state judges acted in the clear absence of all jurisdiction and contends that "it is difficult to plead with specific[ity] a conspiracy" in this case.1

We AFFIRM for substantially the reasons given by the district court.

ENTERED FOR THE COURT

David M. Ebel

Circuit Judge