Robert M. Schucker v. Terry G. Rockwood James C. Fukuhara Dewar, Romig & Rockwood, Inc. Anne D. McGowan Delay, Laredo & McGowan Maurice Jourdane

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• noting that the court has “an obligation where the petitioner is pro se, particularly in civil rights cases, to construe the pleadings liberally and to afford the petitioner the benefit of any doubt” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• judicial immunity applies even assuming judge misinterpreted statute and acted \in excess of his jurisdiction\
• “[M]erely 10 resorting to the courts and being on the winning side of a lawsuit does not make a [private] party 11 a joint actor” with a State official.
• private party's use of state legal procedures does not constitute conspiracy with state officials
• “Judges are absolutely immune from damage actions for judicial acts taken within the jurisdiction of their courts. . . . A judge loses absolute immunity only when [the judge] acts in the clear absence of all jurisdiction or performs an act that is not judicial in nature.”

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