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

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 lrnbler v. Pachtman, 424 US 409 (1976), or as civil administrators? Whether the Opinion of this court in Willner u. 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?