Vincent Oliva v. Kirby Heller

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• holding that a law clerk “who was clearly assisting [a] judge in carrying out judicial functions[] was covered by the doctrine of absolute immunity”
• holding that a law clerk “who was clearly assisting [a] judge in carrying out judicial functions[ ] was covered by the doctrine of absolute immunity”
• holding that a law clerk, “who was clearly assisting the judge in carrying out judicial functions, was covered by the doctrine of absolute immunity”
• holding that “for purposes of absolute judicial immunity, judges and their law clerks are as one”
• affirming dismissal of claims against law clerks on absolute immunity grounds because “for purposes of absolute immunity, judges and their law clerks are as one.”
• extending “absolute judicial immunity” to a law clerk to a federal judge

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