John Boyd v. Neal B. Biggers, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a district court should “consider the possible 2 applicability of the doctrine of absolute immunity . . . as a threshold matter”
• holding that a dismissal based on absolute immur.ity was properly dismissed with prejudice
• finding that claims against state prosecutor were “properly dismissed with prejudice as frivolous[,]” where inmate alleged “no facts against the prosecutor that would destroy [his] absolute immunity”
• explaining that absolute immunity applies to a prosecutor’s actions in “initiating the prosecution and carrying the case through the judicial process even if the prosecutor is accused of knowingly using perjured testimony”
• explaining that claims barred by absolute immunity are appropriately dismissed with prejudice
• affirming dismissal of plaintiffs claims with prejudice where the claims were barred by absolute immunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).