Legal Opinion
Miller v. Gammie
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 9, 2003No. 01-15491PublishedCited by 1,413 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Chief Judge SCHROEDER; Concurrence by Judge KOZINSKI, Concurrence by Judge O’SCANNLAIN, Concurrence by Judge TASHIMA.
SCHROEDER, Chief Judge.
I. OVERVIEW
We took this case en banc to clarify the narrow scope of absolute immunity after Supreme Court decisions have taken an approach that is fundamentally inconsistent with the reasoning of our earlier circuit authority involving immunity for family-service social workers. Compare Babcock v. Tyler, 884 F.2d 497, 502-03 (9th Cir.1989), with Kalina v. Fletcher, 522 U.S. 118, 127-29, 118 S.Ct. 502, 139 L.Ed.2d 471 (1997), and Antoine v.…
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