Rehberg v. Paulk

Docket Number10-788
Decision Date02 April 2012

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  • Stillwagon v. City of Del.
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Southern District of Ohio
    • August 15, 2017
    ...that a grand jury witness has absolute immunity from any § 1983 claim based on the witness's testimony. Rehberg v. Paulk , 566 U.S. 356, 369, 132 S.Ct. 1497, 182 L.Ed.2d 593 (2012).20 The immunity, the Court explained, could "not be circumvented by claiming that a grand jury witness conspir......
  • United States v. Thorne
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — District of Columbia
    • June 30, 2021
    ...so much so that the [Supreme] Court has referred to its confidentiality as ‘vital.’ " (quoting Rehberg v. Paulk , 566 U.S. 356, 374, 132 S.Ct. 1497, 182 L.Ed.2d 593 (2012) )). The totality of these sources informed the Circuit's decision that the text of Rule 6(e) must be interpreted narrow......
  • Marshall v. Marshall
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Eastern District of Virginia
    • March 1, 2021
    ...absolute immunity from any § 1983 claim based on the witness’ testimony. (R. Marshall's Mem. at 15 (citing Rehberg v. Paulk , 566 U.S. 356, 132 S.Ct. 1497, 182 L.Ed.2d 593 (2012) ).) However, Robert Marshall does not fall within the protections of this principle, as he constitutes a "compla......
  • Laskar v. Hurd, No. 19-11719
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — Eleventh Circuit
    • August 28, 2020
    ... ... Because section 1983 is not merely "a federalized amalgamation of pre-existing common-law claims," Rehberg , 566 U.S. at 366, 132 S.Ct. 1497, we must determine whether this common-law understanding comports with relevant constitutional principles, ... ...
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  • THE BRANCH BEST QUALIFIED TO ABOLISH IMMUNITY.
    • United States
    • Notre Dame Law Review Vol. 93 No. 5, May 2018
    • May 1, 2018
    ...409, 419-20, 420 n.25 (1968) (disavowing characterization of the law in Hurd v. Hodge, 334 U.S. 24, 31 (1948)). (66) Rehberg v. Paulk, 566 U.S. 356, 364-65 (67) See Jack M. Beermann, A Critical Approach to Section 1983 with Special Attention to Sources of Law, 42 STAN. L. REV. 51, 57 (1989)......
  • Qualified and Absolute Immunity at Common Law.
    • United States
    • Stanford Law Review Vol. 73 No. 6, June 2021
    • June 1, 2021
    ...thus recognized that sources after 1871 might be relevant in identifying the principles of the common law in 1871. See Rehberg v. Paulk, 566 U.S. 356, 365-66 (29.) Bogan, 523 U.S. at 51. (30.) Stephen A. Siegel, Joel Bishop's Orthodoxy, 13 LAW & HIST. REV. 215, 215 (1995) (quoting Mr. B......
  • THE CASE AGAINST QUALIFIED IMMUNITY.
    • United States
    • Notre Dame Law Review Vol. 93 No. 5, May 2018
    • May 1, 2018
    ...(5) Ziglar v. Abbasi, 137 S. Ct. 1843, 1871 (2017) (Thomas, J., concurring) (alteration in original) (quoting Rehberg v. Paulk, 566 U.S. 356, 363 (6) Id. at 1872. (7) See, e.g., Will Baude, "In an Appropriate Case, We Should Reconsider Our Qualified Immunity Jurisprudence," WASH. POST: THE ......
  • Qualified Immunity and Federalism All the Way Down
    • United States
    • Georgetown Law Journal No. 109-2, December 2020
    • December 1, 2020
    ...Act against the United States, which are paid from the U.S. Treasury’s Judgment Fund). 237. See supra Part III. 238. Rehberg v. Paulk, 566 U.S. 356, 363 (2012) (quoting Malley v. Briggs, 475 U.S. 335, 342 (1986)). 239. See Richardson v. McKnight, 521 U.S. 399, 401 (1997); Wyatt v. Cole, 504......
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