Corbett Salyer v. Vicky Patrick

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• recognizing the functional orientation of the absolute immunity doctrine and holding that social workers are entitled to absolute immunity when filing child abuse petitions
• “[F]amily service workers [are] absolutely immune from liability in filing [a] juvenile abuse petition, due to their quasi-prosecutorial function in the initiation of child abuse proceedings.”
• absolute immunity extends to “quasi-prosecutorial functions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).