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GUERCIO v. BRODY

No. 85-1716.

814 F.2d 1115 (1987)

Helen Jean GUERCIO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Honorable George BRODY, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court, and the Honorable John Feikens, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, sued individually and in their official capacities, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 1, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Nicholas Revelos, Helen Jean Guercio, Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., Marya C. Young (argued), Thomas Mack, Gov't Accountability Project, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Barbara Herwig, Katherine Gruenheck (argued), Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Appellate Staff, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before LIVELY, Chief Judge, and KEITH and MERRITT, Circuit Judges.

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

This case requires us to draw a line between the administrative and the judicial acts of federal judges. The sole question we address on appeal is whether the doctrine of absolute judicial immunity shields federal judges from any liability for wrongful employment practices.

The District Court dismissed the case on the basis of absolute judicial immunity. In light of our interpretation of the well-settled law that the doctrine of absolute...

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