Valdez v. City And County Of Denver

How courts have described this case

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• holding that law enforcement officials enjoy absolute immunity from suit for performing ministerial actions under the direction of a state court judge
• holding that “an official charged with the duty of executing a facially valid court order enjoys absolute immunity from liability for damages in a suit challenging conduct prescribed by that order”
• observing that absolute immunity for officials assigned to carry out a judge’s orders is necessary to ensure that such officials can perform their function without the need to secure permanent legal counsel
• \[public] [o]fficials such as the defendants must not be required to act as pseudo-appellate courts scrutinizing the orders of judges\
• under qualified immunity standard, \[f]actual disputes would require discovery if not a trial\
• under qualified immunity standard, “[fjactual disputes would require discovery if not a trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).