In United States law, absolute immunity is a type of sovereign immunity for government officials that confers complete immunity from criminal prosecution...

presidents have absolute immunity for acts committed as president within their core constitutional purview, at least presumptive immunity for official acts...

have absolute criminal immunity for official acts under core constitutional powers, presumptive immunity for other official acts, and no immunity for unofficial...

Sovereign immunity, or crown immunity, is a legal doctrine whereby a sovereign or state cannot commit a legal wrong and is immune from civil suit or criminal...

Legal immunity, or immunity from prosecution, is a legal status wherein an individual or entity cannot be held liable for a violation of the law, in order...

qualified immunity is a legal principle of federal law that grants government officials performing discretionary (optional) functions immunity from lawsuits...

Judicial immunity is a form of sovereign immunity, which protects judges and others employed by the judiciary from liability resulting from their judicial...

to absolute immunity from exercising core powers enumerated by the Constitution, presumption of immunity for other official acts, and no immunity for...

situations, sovereign immunity may be waived by law. Sovereign immunity falls into two categories: Absolute immunity: When absolute immunity applies, a government...

Consular immunity privileges are described in the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963 (VCCR). Consular immunity offers protections similar...

President's absolute immunity extends to all acts within the 'outer perimeter' of his duties of office." The Court did not address the issue of immunity from...

have absolute immunity in his role as president, as decided in Nixon v. Fitzgerald. Harlow v. Fitzgerald examined whether that degree of immunity extended...

Total immunity is a form of legal immunity that is all encompassing and may refer to: Absolute immunity, immunity for government officials that confers...

being immune from legal liability due to a special status Absolute immunity, a type of immunity for government officials that confers total immunity when...

has absolute immunity for acts committed as president within their constitutional purview, presumptive immunity for official acts, and no immunity for...

ruled to dismiss the case on the basis that federal employees had absolute immunity for actions they perform in the course of their official duties. The...

presidential immunity case. He made frequent television appearances defending Trump and was reported as playing a "major role" in the presidential immunity case...

assertion of executive testimonial immunity by holding that "with respect to senior-level presidential aides, absolute immunity from compelled congressional...

sitting president enjoys "absolute immunity from criminal process of any kind." Prosecutors countered that Trump had "sweeping immunity" from a criminal probe...

ruled in Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982) that the president is entitled to absolute immunity from legal liability for civil damages based on his official acts...

2022, Mehta issued a lengthy opinion that rejected Trump's claim of "absolute immunity" from lawsuits, finding that his actions were not part of his presidential...

absolute immunity, but instead deserved qualified immunity. Nixon v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 731 (1982) The President is entitled to absolute immunity from...

with immunity unless it agrees to waive its immunity, usually by legislation allowing specific claims to be brought. Use of the word "absolute" sometimes...

South Africa, have introduced restrictive immunity by statute, which explicitly limits jurisdictional immunity to public acts, but not private or commercial...

Trump's immunity defense had been introduced too late. On December 13, the 2nd Circuit ruled that Trump could not use presidential immunity as a defense...

Parliamentary immunity, also known as legislative immunity, is a system in which politicians or other political leaders are granted full immunity from legal...

a 2020 decision rejecting Trump's claims that the president holds absolute immunity from criminal process. In February 2021, Trump's accounting firm Mazars...

give evidence against her husband in a wide range of scenarios. This absolute immunity lasted only until the entry into force of section 80 of the Police...

rule by the Islamic jurist provides that, since the jurist provides "absolute immunity from any kind of corruption, error, sin, selfishness", and "comprehensive...

Diplomatic immunity is a principle of international law by which certain foreign government officials are recognized as having legal immunity from the jurisdiction...