Gerardo Hernandez AKA Gary Hernandez v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that prosecutors have absolute immunity for their role as advocates
• holding dismissal without permitting amendment was not an abuse of discretion where plaintiff “did not file a written motion for leave to amend” and “failed to let the district court know just how he intended to fix his complaint”
• affirming a district court’s denial of amendment because, among other reasons, the plaintiff “did not file a written motion for leave to amend”
• affirming dismissal of plaintiff’s § 1983 claims under Rule 12(b)(6) based on absolute prosecutorial immunity
• “Determining whether a complaint contains enough well- pleaded facts sufficient to state a claim is a context-specific task…. If, in the end, a plaintiff's well- pleaded facts do not permit the court to infer more than the mere possibility of misconduct, the complaint fails to state a claim.”
• “[p]rosecutors are entitled to absolute immunity” for anything they do in their roles as advocates, including their “decisions to prosecute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).