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Wallace v. Powell, No. 3:09-cv-286 (M.D.Pa.) (2009 WL 4051974) (November 20, 2009) (Judge A. Richard Caputo)

Loaded on Nov. 1, 2009 published in Punch and Jurists November 02, 2009
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Administrative versus Judicial Acts.

Here the Court held that two crooked Pennsylvania judges who sentenced an estimated 5000 juveniles to a detention center in exchange for kickbacks were entitled to assert the defense of judicial immunity, at least for their courtroom acts.

This decision is an outgrowth of the widely-publicized and shocking conduct of ...

 

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