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Supreme Court· 1/12/1988

Forrester v. White

Citations

  • 484 U.S. 219
  • 108 S. Ct. 538
  • 98 L. Ed. 2d 555
  • 1988 U.S. LEXIS 308
  • 56 U.S.L.W. 4067
  • 45 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 37,627
  • 45 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1112

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that judges do not enjoy absolute immunity when performing administrative, legislative, or executive functions
  • holding that judges do not enjoy absolute immunity when performing administrative, legislative, or executive functions
  • holding that a state judge’s dismissal of a subordinate court employee is not a judicial act entitled to absolute immunity
  • holding that judge acted in administrative capacity when he demoted and dismissed probation officer and, therefore, was not entitled to absolute immunity
  • holding that judge acted in administrative capacity when he demoted and dismissed probation officer and, therefore, was not entitled to absolute immunity
  • holding that “the nature of the function performed, not the identity of the actor who performed it,” informs the absolute immunity analysis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: O'Connor, Rehnquist, Brennan, White, Marshall, Stevens, Scalia, Blackmun

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