The following excerpt is from Parham v. Steemers, No. CIV S-11-1475 LKK CKD PS (E.D. Cal. 2011):
immunity when acting in clear absence of jurisdiction, but one must distinguish acts that are performed in excess of a judge's authority (which remain absolutely immune) from those acts taken in clear absence of jurisdiction. Mireles v. Waco, 502 U.S. 9, 12-13 (1991). Thus, for example, in a case where a judge actually ordered the seizure of an individual by means of excessive force, an act clearly outside of his legal authority, he remained immune because the order was given in his capacity as a judge and not with the clear absence of jurisdiction. Id.
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