Legal Opinion
Zenon v. Guzman
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 15, 2019No. 18-1119PPublishedCited by 132 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
This federal case is brought by an aggrieved litigant who asks us to step in and change the way some things turned out for him in state court in Massachusetts. Specifically, appellant Abinel Zenon sought a declaratory judgment labelling as unconstitutional a protective order that remains in effect in his now-closed state criminal case. This request was denied by the federal district court on appellee's motion to dismiss. Because we hold that the state court judge's actions are shielded from this attack by the doctrine of judicial immunity, we affirm.
BACKGROUND
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