Slyvester Harris v. Richard G. Harvey, Jr.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• suggesting in dicta that the trial court may want to reduce a punitive damages amount if “defendant can show financial hardship”
• “Judge Harvey was acting under color of law by using the power and prestige of his state office”
• judge’s acts outside of courtroom and not part of his judicial functions, such as derogatory comments about the defendant to media and others, were not shielded by judicial immunity
• judge who participated in non-judicial activities against a police officer subject to disciplinary proceeding, including acts injuring officer through adverse newspaper publicity, enjoyed neither judicial nor prosecutorial immunity for such acts done in absence of jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).