Court Opinion

ID: 9483181
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 09:13:40.527063+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:49:28.654769
License: Public Domain

BEAM, Circuit Judge,
concurring and concurring specially.
I agree with Judge McMillian’s thorough and scholarly analysis of absolute immunity and concur in his opinion. I think, additionally, that Brown’s complaint suffers from a more fundamental defect. He simply does not state a claim for relief that can be granted under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. I recognize that it is frequently more expeditious to reach the question of immunity than to analyze the quality of the claim asserted. Perhaps this is such a case. Here, however, the path followed clearly demonstrates that more due process was given Brown under Missouri law than was required by the Constitution.