Flor Lopez v. William Vanderwater and Howard Wheeler Gamble

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a state court judge's preparation of a criminal complaint against the defendant, and presentation of those charges to himself, were actions taken under color of state law
• granting immunity for the acts of arraigning, convicting, and sentencing an ex-tenant even though the judge was not at the courthouse
• “Action taken by a state official . . . who purports to be acting under color of official right is state action and is taken under color of state law . . . .”
• judge not immune for “prosecutorial” acts prior to biased decision
• judge immune for actions of arraigning, convicting and sentencing
• judge immune for actions of arraigning, convicting and sentencing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).