{"id":2176,"date":"2024-08-07T21:26:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T21:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/court-dismisses-suit-against-attorneys-over-judicial-duties-immunity\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T21:26:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T21:26:39","slug":"court-dismisses-suit-against-attorneys-over-judicial-duties-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/court-dismisses-suit-against-attorneys-over-judicial-duties-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Dismisses Suit Against Attorneys Over &#8216;Judicial Duties&#8217; Immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has rejected efforts to revive a woman\u2019s lawsuit against attorneys who represented her minor child in custody litigation, concluding that, despite allegations by the plaintiff that their conduct was \u201cwrongful and illegal,\u201d the attorneys had been acting in line with their judicial duties\u00a0as court-appointed attorneys, and were therefore entitled to immunity.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1rMAITYBkzmwoJR6dTO-YsMG5MCz4cfJK\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Aug. 7 decision<\/a>\u00a0authored by Judge\u00a0Raymond W. Gruender for the Eighth Circuit, the\u00a0three-judge panel concluded attorneys from Frankel, Ruben, Klein, Payne &amp; Pudlowski, Dunlop &amp; McCarter, and\u00a0James D. Reid, Ph.D., LLC were exempt from plaintiff Devon Arseneau\u2019s suit, which accused them of violating her Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights, stemming from their representation of her minor child during a custody battle, in which the court granted Arseneau\u2019s ex-husband sole legal custody of their child.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has rejected efforts to revive a woman\u2019s lawsuit against attorneys who represented her minor child in custody litigation, concluding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[93,143,998,2889,613,485,339],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-attorneys","tag-court","tag-dismisses","tag-duties","tag-immunity","tag-judicial","tag-suit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}