Harold T. Tarter v. James Hury

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, as to claims for injunctive relief, prosecutors do not enjoy absolute immunity and court clerks enjoy no immunity whatsoever
• holding that an injunction against excessive bail was barred by O’Shea, but that an injunction requiring clerks to file and docket all pro se motions was a “simple, nondiscretionary procedural safeguard” that would not be excessively intrusive
• concluding that “nondiscretionary procedural safeguard[s]” did not interfere with a criminal proceeding
• dismissing a complaint for failure to state a claim because “[a]s long as a criminal defendant is represented by counsel, he will be able to present matters for decision to the court through motions filed by his attorney.”
• dismissing a complaint for failure to state a claim because “[a]s long as a criminal defendant is represented by counsel, he will be able to present matters for decision to the court through motions filed by his attorney.”
• “An injunction against excessive bail, no matter how carefully limited, would require a federal court to reevaluate de novo each challenged bail decision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).