Legal Opinion · Dissent
Briggs v. Goodwin
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided September 21, 1977No. 75-1642PublishedCited by 153 opinions
1DissentOpinion for the court filed by McGOWAN, Circuit Judge
McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:
This case raises a difficult question concerning the precise scope of the absolute prosecutorial immunity afforded by the Supreme Court in Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409, 96 S.Ct. 984, 47 L.Ed.2d 128 (1976). Plaintiffs-appellees brought in the District Court a civil action in tort grounded upon the Constitution, alleging injury by reason of defendant-appellant’s assertedly false testimony in a hearing held in connection with a grand jury investigation of appellees’ activities as members of an antiwar organization. Appellant moved to dismiss on the ground that he…
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