G.H. Newnom v. H.H. Neill

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that state-court judge was entitled to absolute immunity in § 1983 action seeking damages, and injunctive and declaratory relief
• noting that declaratory relief is limited by abstention doctrines and Article III’s case-or-controversy requirement
• dismissing various constitutional claims against Plaintiffs attack the constitutionality of their actions which ultimately led up to a state court judgment. judicial defendant
• state court is not a proper party because it lacks an independent legal existence and therefore is incapable of being sued
• state court is not a proper party because it lacks an “independent legal existence” and therefore is incapable of being sued
• state court is not a proper party because it lacks an “independent legal existence” and therefore is incapable of being sued

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).