Milton McCray v. State of Maryland

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• holding that clerks have “derivative immunity” when they act under the direction of the court
• holding that clerks have “derivative immunity” when they act under the direction of the court
• holding that quasi-judicial immunity does not extend to clerk’s performance of “required ministerial act[s] such as properly filing papers”
• holding that the analysis by the court in McCray regarding liability for negligent conduct in an action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 was inconsistent with United States Supreme Court case law
• holding that the Clerk of the Baltimore City Court was not entitled to judicial immunity for failing to file court documents since the filing of documents is a mandatory, rather than a discretionary, function
• observing that the law provides immunity for those whose actions are taken \in obedience to a judicial order or under the court's direction\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).