Lester Slotnick v. Paul Garfinkle

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a court clerk and a state hospital superintendent acting on a judge’s orders were entitled to immunity
• holding that court clerk who filled out commitment papers was immune because he was acting under the official directive of a judge
• affirming dismissal because complaint \neither elaborates nor substantiates its bald claims that certain defendants 'conspired' with one another\
• affirming dismissal of a claim dependent on the existence of a conspiracy where the plaintiff’s complaint did not elaborate on or substantiate “its bald claims that certain defendants ‘conspired’ with one another”
• “Judicial immunity extends ... to those who carry out the orders of judges,” including court clerks
• “[A]llegations of conspiracy must [ ] be supported by material facts, not merely conclusory statements.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).