Guthrie v. Guthrie's Ex'r

How courts have described this case

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• a pretrial order must “clearly set forth the various issues the parties intend to litigate”
• where a pretrial order is vague, a court can consider the party’s failure to include the claim in the jury instructions as a waiver of its claim
• “Absolute immunity is not limited to government officials with the title of prosecutor or judge; officials perform- ing ‘functionally comparable’ acts in other contexts, such as administrative agencies, are also accorded absolute immu- nity.”
• parole officer’s filing of parole violation report protected only by qualified immunity
• plaintiff waived defendant’s waiver of absolute immunity defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).