Reddy v. O'CONNOR

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a “deputy clerk's alleged refusal to file documents [the] plaintiff submitted” was an action “quintessentially ‘judicial’ in nature because [it was] an integral part of the judicial process.”
• holding that a “deputy clerk's alleged refusal to file documents [the] plaintiff submitted” was an action “quintessentially ‘judicial’ in nature because [it was] an integral part of the judicial process.”
• holding that a “deputy clerk's alleged refusal to file documents [the] plaintiff submitted” was an action “quintessentially ‘judicial’ in nature because [it was] an integral part of the judicial process.”
• finding that Supreme Court justices “‘have absolute immunity in exercising their judicial authority’ in deciding the matters pending before them”
• holding a Supreme Court clerk immune from suit for rejection of plaintiffs papers for docketing
• finding that a clerk’s “receipt and processing of plaintiff’s attempted filings” to be “part and parcel of the process of adjudicating cases” and therefore the clerk was protected by absolute immunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).