Court Opinion

ID: 2670644
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2014-04-21 18:20:30.836067+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:40:42.216636
License: Public Domain

FILED

UNITED STATES DISTRICT CoUR'r ApR 1 8 mm
FGR THE NSTRICT 0F C@LUMB[A ciark, u.s. mistrial s. aamid. 1111 6-9. As a result, the
plaintiff allegedly “suffers from mental and emotional injury," id., for which he demands
"Compensatory darnage[s] in the amount of One Miilion dollars . . . and . . . Punitive damage[s]

in the amount of Two Million dollars.” Ia’. at 6.

Although the defendant is amenable to suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and under Bfvens v.
Six U)wknoivn Named Agents of F ed. Bureau ofNarcotz'cs, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), see Settles v.

U.S. Parole Comm 'n, 429 F.3d 1098, 1104 (D.C. Cir. 2005), he is "absolutely immune from a

lawsuit such as this which is predicated on acts taken in [his] quasi-judicial . . . capacity." Jones
v. Fulwr)od, 860 F. Supp. 2d 16, 22 (D.D.C. 20l2) (citation and internal quotation marks
omitted); see Fletcher v. U.S. Parole Comm ’n, 550 F. Supp. 2d 30, 43 (D.D.C. 2008)

( reaffirming grant to USPC Commissioners of absolute quasi-judicial immunity from suit).
Plaintifi`s claim therefore is barred and must be dismissed. See, e.g., Nelson v, Willz`ams, 750 F.
Supp. 2d 46, 52-53 (D.D.C. 2010) (dismissing claim for money damages against Parole
Commissioners, hearing examiner, and community supervision officers in their individual
capaoities), aff’d, No. 10-5429, 2011 WL 2618078, at *l (D.C. Cir. June 23, 201 1) (`per curiam),
cert. deniea', 132 S. Ct. 1035 (2012); see also 28 U.S.C. §§ l915(_e)(2)(b)(iii), l9l5A(b)
(authorizing disinissal of a complaint seeking monetary relief from defendant who is immune

from suit).

An Order consistent with this Memorandum Opinion is issued separately.

     

U ited States

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