SB423 Alabama 2016 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2016

Title

Municipal courts, judicial immunity for discretionary judicial acts provided for, const. amend.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under the common law doctrine of absolute judicial immunity, municipal court judges, magistrates, and clerks of court have absolute judicial immunity for discretionary judicial acts</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would propose a constitutional amendment to include this doctrine in the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, by providing that municipal court judges, magistrates, and clerks of court would have absolute judicial immunity for discretionary judicial acts</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To propose a constitutional amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, to provide that municipal court judges, magistrates, and clerks of court would have absolute judicial immunity for discretionary judicial acts. </p>

Subjects

Constitutional Amendments