[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1101 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1101

 To prohibit the award of costs (including attorney's fees) against a 
    judicial officer for acts or omissions occurring in a judicial 
                               capacity.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 1993

  Mr. Hughes (for himself and Mr. Moorhead) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the award of costs (including attorney's fees) against a 
    judicial officer for acts or omissions occurring in a judicial 
                               capacity.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 722(b) of 
the Revised Statutes of the United States (42 U.S.C. 1988(b)) is 
amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: ``, 
except that costs, including attorney's fees, shall not be awarded 
against a judge or judicial officer who would be immune from actions 
for damages arising out of the same act or omission about which the 
complaint is made in the action or proceeding''.

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