Frank S. Dorman v. Michael Higgins

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• holding that “federal probation officers preparing and furnishing presentence reports to the court” are entitled to absolute immunity
• holding that “federal probation officers preparing and furnishing presentence reports to the court” are entitled to absolute immunity
• holding that “federal probation officers preparing and furnishing presentence reports to the court” are entitled to absolute immunity
• holding that “absolute immunity spares the official any scrutiny of his motives” so that allegations of “bad faith or . . . malice [cannot] defeat[ ] a claim of absolute immunity”
• affording absolute immunity from suits for damages to federal probation officers arising out of the preparation and furnishing of presentence reports
• summarizing the rules and procedures of the preparing and filing of presen-tence reports

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