A Missouri county clerk is facing trial for telling a pregnant teenager she couldn’t use the state’s parental consent judicial bypass procedure without notifying her parents, as neither judicial nor qualified immunity shield her from liability, a federal court said.
It’s unclear at this stage of the proceedings if Michelle Chapman was acting at the direction of the presiding judge when she refused to allow Jane Doe to petition the court, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri said.
It thus wouldn’t be appropriate to dismiss Doe’s complaint on the basis of quasi-judicial immunity until evidence can ...
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