Buckwalter v. Nevada Board of Medical Examiners

How courts have described this case

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• holding that medical board members are absolutely immune for failing to “promptly institute a hearing” because “they were acting in a judicial capacity when they set the hearing date” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that, although qualified immunity did not bar equitable relief, Younger prohibited the injunction of the medial board’s proceedings
• board members immune for exercising emergency summary suspension authority of a physician
• members of state’s medical board

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).