Mitchell v. Fishbein

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a “private actor may be afforded the absolute immunity ordinarily accorded judges acting within the scope of their jurisdictions if his role is ‘functionally comparable to that of a judge’” (quoting Butz v. Economou, 438 U.S. 478, 513 (1978))
• observing that Rooker-Feldman precluded federal court review of “determination by a state bar committee that an insurance company had engaged in the unauthorized practice of law”
• affording immunity to private actors whose acts “are integrally related to an ongoing judicial proceeding.”
• vacating the district court’s dismissal with prejudice and remanding with instructions to enter an order of dismissal without prejudice
• “[The doctrine] does not preclude federal district court review of executive action, including determinations made by a state administrative agency.”
• members of screening committee responsible for certifying private attorneys as eligible for participation in state's assigned-counsel plan were not entitled to quasi-judicial immunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).