Doe Ex Rel. Doe v. County of Lake

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ALLEN SHARP, District Judge.

The defendants, Judges James J. Richards and Joseph Meszar, contend that they have judicial immunity from suit, which encompasses any action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, as brought by the plaintiffs in the instant action.

The principle of judicial immunity has been long a part of our common law and the rationale for the same was succinctly stated by the Supreme Court of the United States in the early case of Bradley v. Fisher, 80 U.S. (13 Wall.) 335, 20 L.Ed. 646 (1871), as follows:

“For it is a general principle of the highest importance to the proper…