United States Second Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's complaint, asserting claims of discrimination in terminating his certification to serve as a court-appointed counsel, is reversed as defendants are not entitled to quasi-judicial absolute immunity where their functions are neither comparable to those of a judge nor integrally related to any specific judicial proceeding.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/03/2004
• Published 08/03/2004

Judges

• KEARSE, Circuit Judge., Before:  OAKES, KEARSE, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen T. Mitchell pro se, New York, New York, Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert H. Easton, Assistant Solicitor General, New York, New York (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Michelle Aronowitz, Deputy Solicitor General, New York, New York, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.