Legal Opinion
Lewittes v. Lobis
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 26, 2006No. 05-2219PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED SUMMARY ORDER
UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that the judgment of the district court be, and it hereby is, AFFIRMED.
Lewittes asserts the instant claim against Lobis, Burrows, and Burrows’s law firm for conspiring or acting jointly to deny Lewittes’s constitutional rights through Lobis’s adjudication of several motions, which Lewittes contends Lobis lacked jurisdiction to decide.
A state court judge is not subject to a suit for damages for actions relating to the exercise of his or her judicial functions, unless the judge acted in the clear absence of…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Mireles v. WacoSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Colon v. CoughlinCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1995
- Bluntt v. O'ConnorAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002
- Luisi v. LuisiAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2004
- Bradt v. WhiteNew York Supreme Court · 2002
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