King v. Myers

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing the “ ‘immunity of judges from liability for damages for acts committed within their judicial jurisdiction,’ even if such acts were allegedly done either maliciously or corruptly.”
• “Issuing process of arrest for one accused of a crime is a judicial function.”
• “Magistrates are judicial officers, and are thus entitled to absolute immunity under the same conditions as judges.”
• “[T]he scope of the judge’s jurisdiction must be construed broadly . . . ”
• “[A]bsolute immunity extended to a judge performing a judicial action is not in any way diminished even if his or her exercise of authority is flawed by the commission of grave procedural errors.”
• “[Tl]he absolute immunity extended to a judge performing a judicial action is not in any way diminished even if his or her exercise of authority is flawed by the commission of grave procedural errors.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).