Donald Montero v. Brion Travis, Commissioner Kenneth Graber, Commissioner

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• concluding that a judge was entitled to immunity from a claim for injunctive relief because the plaintiff “allege[d] neither the violation of a declaratory decree, nor the unavailability of declaratory relief”
• explaining that parole board officials deciding whether to grant, deny, or revoke parole are engaged in an “adjudicative function”
• observing that \[a] complaint will be dismissed as ‘frivolous' when ‘it is clear that the defendants are immune from suit'\ in a case involving absolute immunity
• affirming that “the claim against [parole board chairman] was properly dismissed as frivolous because [plaintiff] never alleged any facts describing [parole board chairman]’s personal involvement in the claimed constitutional violations”
• applying injunction bar to parole board officials “when they serve a quasi- adjudicative function in deciding whether to grant, deny or revoke parole”
• finding a claim against a parole board chairman was “properly dismissed as frivolous because [the plaintiff] never alleged any facts describing [the chairman’s] personal involvement in the claimed constitutional violations”

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