Stephen M. Stern and Christopher D. Becker v. John J. Mascio

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “[e]ven grave procedural errors or acts taken when no statute purports to confer on the court the authority purportedly exercised will not deprive a judge of judicial immunity”
• “Since Judge Mascio’s court had subject-matter jurisdiction over the case, he did not act ‘in the complete absence of all jurisdiction’ for purposes of the judicial immunity determination.”
• “Since Judge Mascio’s court had subject-matter jurisdiction over the case, he did not act ‘in the complete absence of all jurisdiction’ for purposes of the judicial immunity determination.”
• “[J]Judges of courts of superior or general jurisdiction are not liable to civil actions for their judicial acts, even when such acts are in excess of their jurisdiction.””

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).