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· 1/30/1987

Marguerite Eades v. Donald J. Sterlinske, Bradley W. Huff and Julie Ewald

Citations

  • 810 F.2d 723
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 1754

How courts have described this case

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

  • clerk and court reporter who prepared and filed a false certificate summarizing an instruction conference at the direction of the judge were entitled to quasi-judicial immunity
  • clerk and court reporter who prepared and filed a false certificate summarizing an instruction conference at the direction of the judge were entitled to quasi-judicial immunity
  • a judge’s clerk, who prepared a false certificate and altered the docket, was exercising discretion and performing duties integral to the judicial process, and thus is entitled to absolute immunity
  • court clerk entitled to absolute immunity when “performing nonroutine, discretionary acts akin to those performed by judges” as opposed to a “non- discretionary, ministerial task” such as the duty to type and send notice after entry of judgment

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Judges: Bauer, Cummings, Posner

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