John Moses v. Sadashiv D. Parwatikar, M.D.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that absolute immunity attendant to quasi-judicial immunity is not affected by allegations of conspiracy
• holding psychiatrist entitled to absolute immunity when appointed in competency examination
• a court-appointed psychologist who performs a competency evaluation for a court performs functions essential to the judicial process and has absolute immunity
• psychiatrist appointed by court to conduct a competency examination was performing a function essential to the judicial process and was therefore absolutely immune from liability
• psychiatrist appointed by court to conduct competency examination in a criminal case performed functions essential to the judicial process and was entitled to quasi-judicial immunity
• court- appointed psychiatrist who conducted competency evaluation had absolute immunity because of his performance of “functions essential to the judicial process”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).