SB423 Alabama 2016 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Tom Whatley
Republican
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

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary