In re Trattner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that clerks of court had 9 absolute quasi-judicial immunity from damages for civil rights violations when they performed 10 tasks that were an integral part of the judicial process
• explaining that federal judges are entitled to immunity for judicial acts taken within their jurisdiction
• explaining that “the doctrine of judicial immunity knows two limits”, which are: (1) when a judge acts “in the clear absence of all jurisdiction”; and (2) “only judicial acts are protected.”
• explaining that alleged “procedural errors…do not deprive a judge of [judicial] immunity[,]” “[n]or is judicial immunity lost by allegations that a judge conspired with one party to rule against another party[.]”
• noting that “even a conspiracy between a judge and [a party] to predetermine the outcome of a judicial proceeding, while clearly improper, nevertheless does not pierce the immunity extended to judges.”
• according immunity to clerk of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California given nature of the responsibilities

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).