Absolute Immunity - Judgment Search Results

Nixon Vs. Fitzgerald

Court: US Supreme Court

..... arbitrary adverse actions indicate that those policy arguments that have elsewhere justified absolute immunity are not applicable here absolute immunity would be nothing more than a judicial declaration of policy that ..... president like members of congress judges prosecutors or congressional aides all having absolute immunity are not immune for acts outside official duties footnote 2 2 ante at 457 u .....

Butz Vs. Economou

Court: US Supreme Court

..... that high ranking executive officials acting within the outer limits of their authority are absolutely immune from suit indeed the language from spalding quoted above unquestionably applies with equal force in ..... and reaffirms the minimum proposition for which barr stands that executive officials are absolutely immune at least from actions predicated on common law claims as long as they are acting .....

Gms Marine Company Limited Vs. the Owners and Parties Interested in th ...

Court: Kolkata

..... government of philippines appealed to the judicial committee which held that although the theory of absolute immunity was applicable to an action in personam against a foreign sovereign state on a commercial ..... to consider whether the court of appeal was right in upholding the respondents plea of absolute immunity under international law 116 that would imply that the division bench view of this court .....

S.P. Gupta Vs. President of India and ors.

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR1982SC149; 1981Supp(1)SCC87; [1982]2SCR365

..... of documents which are protected irrespective of their contents because there is no absolute immunity for documents belonging to such class even in conway v rimmer at p 952 ..... need for confidentiality of high level communications without more can sustain an absolute unqualified presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances 478 these observations must be read .....

Buckley Vs. Fitzsimmons

Court: US Supreme Court

..... we held that only the latter was entitled to absolute immunity immunity for that action under 1983 accorded with the commonlaw absolute immunity of prosecutors and other attorneys for eliciting false or ..... these premature actions would not be induced by the court s rule separating absolute immunity from qualified immunity based on a third party determination of probable cause makes little sense when .....

Burns Vs. Reed, No.

Court: US Supreme Court

..... it sufficiently before us i would find no absolute immunity as discussed above the only relevant common law absolute immunities were defamation immunity and judicial immunity at common law the tort of maliciously ..... criminal trial in holding that the officer was entitled to absolute immunity we noted that witnesses were absolutely immune at common law from subsequent damages liability for their .....

United States Vs. Stanley

Court: US Supreme Court

..... the court found feres considerations relevant and provided direct military superiors with absolute immunity from damages actions filed by their subordinates here however the defendants are ..... of constitutional rights unless the command relationship or some other consideration requiring absolute immunity is involved these violations should receive moral condemnation and legal redress without .....

Mitchell Vs. Forsyth

Court: US Supreme Court

..... 28 u s c 1291 notwithstanding the absence of a final judgment qualified immunity similar to absolute immunity is an entitlement not to stand trial under certain circumstances such entitlement is ..... security when he authorized these episodes of surveillance inescapably leads to the conclusion that absolute immunity attached to the special function then being performed by mitchell in harlow v fitzgerald .....

Briscoe Vs. Lahue

Court: US Supreme Court

..... majority also bases its decision on considerations of public policy which purportedly mandate absolute immunity for police officers sued under 1983 for their testimony as witnesses ante at 460 u ..... arguably relevant support that the majority cites for the view that congress extended absolute immunity to police officers who give perjurious testimony consists of eight state court cases decided before .....

imbler Vs. Pachtman

Court: US Supreme Court

..... s 553 554 citation omitted footnote 13 the procedural difference between the absolute and the qualified immunities is important an absolute immunity defeats a suit at the outset so long as the official s ..... v maryland 373 u s 83 1963 iii there was no absolute immunity at common law for prosecutors other than absolute immunity from suits for malicious prosecution and defamation there were simply no .....