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· 8/29/1985

Thad D. Lowe v. James E. Letsinger

Citations

  • 772 F.2d 308
  • 1985 U.S. App. LEXIS 22760

How courts have described this case

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  • finding a judge absolutely immune where he had taken four years to rule on the plaintiff’s petition for post- conviction relief
  • “The functioning of the system is more important than some particular and rare judicial misdeed which can be dealt with in other ways, by appellate processes, the ballot, or, in the federal system, by impeachment or other sanctions... .”

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Judges: Cummings, Wood, Garza

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