· 12/1/1988
John Auriemma v. James Montgomery and Donald Hubert
Citations
- 860 F.2d 273
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- noting that \administrative tasks . . . are not intimately associated with the judicial process\
- affording absolute immunity to government attorneys for their “discovery under the rules of civil procedure” but not for their “pretrial investigations that occur outside the rules of discovery”
- no absolute immunity for extra-judicial, pretrial investigations by government attorneys; absolute immunity available “only when such activities are intimately associated with the court-related duties”
- “Absolute immunity is designed to protect the functions that particular government officials perform, not the government officials themselves.”
- “Absolute immunity is designed to protect the functions that particular government officials perform, not the government officials themselves.”
- “Absolute immunity is designed to protect the functions that particular government officials perform, not the government officials themselves.”
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Judges: Wood, Manion, Eschbach
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