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Response To Professor Parness And Mr. Reagle, Jack Grant Day
Response To Professor Parness And Mr. Reagle, Jack Grant Day
Akron Law Review
I subscribe to so much of the reform suggestions proposed by the authors that I believe my response can be most useful if confined to some emphasis or expansion of concurrent views, specific reference to disagreements and support for points of reform needed but not recommended.
The Propriety Of Prospective Relief And Attorney's Fees Awards Against State-Court Judges In Federal Civil Rights Actions, Stephen J. Shapiro
The Propriety Of Prospective Relief And Attorney's Fees Awards Against State-Court Judges In Federal Civil Rights Actions, Stephen J. Shapiro
Akron Law Review
During the past thirty years, the United States Supreme Court has refined a system of immunities for governmental officials when those officials are sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violation of constitutional rights. The kind of immunity granted varies with the kind of governmental function exercised by the official when committing the alleged constitutional violation. Persons exercising legislative functions are absolutely immune from suit either for damages or for prospective (declaratory or injunctive) relief. Those exercising prosecutorial functions are absolutely immune from damages but may be sued for prospective relief. Those exercising executive functions are granted only a conditional, …