SB423 Alabama 2016 Session
Updated Jul 24, 2021
SB423 Alabama 2016 Session
Senate Bill
In Committee
Current Status
Regular Session 2016
Session
1
Sponsor
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Tom WhatleyRepublican - Session
- Regular Session 2016
- Title
- Municipal courts, judicial immunity for discretionary judicial acts provided for, const. amend.
- 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.
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.
- Subjects
- Constitutional Amendments
Bill Actions
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Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary
Bill Text
Documents
Source: Alabama Legislature