Karen Kelly Austin, Individually and as Natural Tutrix of Minors, Renee Chevelle Henry and Raenell Lynn Henry v. Ronald Borel and Janenne Trahan

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “Witnesses . . . who testify in judicial proceedings are . . . shielded by absolute immunity.”
• concluding that the same act was “functionally comparable to a police officer seeking an arrest warrant”
• holding a caseworker's qualified immunity provides protection to all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law
• denying absolute immunity to a social worker for “the filing of an allegedly false verified complaint, which under Louisiana [l]aw initiated temporary custody of a child, but did not initiate the judicial process concerning need of care proceedings”
• “Witnesses, including police officers, who testify in judicial proceedings are . . . shielded by absolute immunity.”
• child protection workers were not entitled to absolute immunity for their conduct in filing allegedly false verified complaint

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).