Sentences with phrase «discretionary official acts»
The upshot of that thread is a small number officials (mostly the President, legislators, judges and district attorneys) have absolutely immunity from civil or criminal liability for certain kinds of discretionary official acts.
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885, 890 (2)(2009)(noting that «arresting a person for conduct occurring in an officer's presence is a discretionary act»), and therefore official immunity shields the officer from liability unless he performed the arrest with «malice or intent to injure,» id.
Absolute immunity is limited to the official discretionary acts of judges, prosecutors in the litigation process (but not in the investigatory process) and the President.