Sheldon Barr v. Robert Abrams, Orestes J. Mihaly, Mark A. Tepper, Rebecca Mullane, William Bottiglieri, and Janey Renee O'COnnOr

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• recognizing a “meaningful” distinction “between filing the criminal information and procuring an arrest warrant; on the one hand, and executing the arrest warrant, on the other”
• assistant state attorney general initiated criminal contempt proceeding and obtained arrest warrant leading to an unlawful arrest and imprisonment before charges dropped
• prosecutors have absolute immunity even if it turns out that “state law did not empower [them] to bring the charges,” so long as “they have at least a semblance of jurisdiction”
• “As we have repeatedly held, complaints relying on the civil rights statutes are insufficient unless they contain some specific allegations of fact indicating a deprivation of rights, instead of a litany of general conclusions that shock but have no meaning.”
• “As we have repeatedly held, complaints relying on the civil rights statutes are insufficient unless they contain some specific allegations of fact indicating a deprivation of rights, instead of a litany of general conclusions that shock but have no meaning.”
• “at least a semblance of jurisdiction”

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