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Wednesday, July 03, 2024

Questioning prosecutorial immunity

Justice Sotomayor respecting (although not dissenting from) denial of cert in Price v. Montgomery County questions prosecutorial immunity--its origins (including noting Alex Reinert's article that Congress abrogated all common law immunities when it enacted § 1983); the misalignment of its scope compared with its policy goals; and the inadequacy of alternative means of remedying prosecutorial misconduct. She does not argue the Court should have granted cert. She argues that the cert denial should not be read as tolerance of the prosecutor's conduct (the Court denies cert for many reason); that the Court may need to step in; and that lower courts must keep immunity with "'quite sparing'" bounds.

Posted by Howard Wasserman on July 3, 2024 at 11:13 AM in Civil Procedure, Constitutional thoughts, Howard Wasserman, Judicial Process | Permalink

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