{"id":129539,"date":"2025-08-04T14:26:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/04\/judicial-officer-has-immunity-from-political-retaliation-lawsuit-5th-circuit-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:26:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:26:55","slug":"judicial-officer-has-immunity-from-political-retaliation-lawsuit-5th-circuit-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/04\/judicial-officer-has-immunity-from-political-retaliation-lawsuit-5th-circuit-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Judicial Officer Has Immunity From Political Retaliation Lawsuit, 5th Circuit Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

The officer was performing a judicial act in presiding over the venire stage of jury duty, when prospective jurors are asked questions, offer excuses and make exemption requests, the court stated. That procedural step calls for the officer’s discretionary judgment, thus he or she enjoys judicial immunity, the court held.<\/p>\n

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The officer was performing a judicial act in presiding over the venire stage of jury duty, when prospective jurors are asked questions, offer excuses and make exemption requests, the court stated. That procedural step calls for the officer’s discretionary judgment, thus he or she enjoys judicial immunity, the court held.<\/p>\n

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The officer was performing a judicial act in presiding over the venire stage of jury duty, when prospective jurors are asked questions, offer excuses and make exemption requests, the court stated. That procedural step calls for the officer’s discretionary judgment, thus he or she enjoys judicial immunity, the court held. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The officer was performing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/legal-news-M3aDIQ.jpg?fit=617%2C411&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}