DOCTRINE OF ABSOLUTE JUDICIAL IMMUNITY West Virginia has applied what is now known as the doctrine of absolute judicial immunity beginning with our decision in Fausler v. Parsons, 6 W.Va. 486 (1873), where members of the Tucker County Board of Registration acted in a judicial capacity to determine who had the right to be registered to vote. When one prospective voter was “excluded and erased” from the list of registered voters, he felt compelled to seek monetary damages from the members of the Board of Registration of Tucker County for the disgrace that he suffered by virtue of his exclusion as a voter among the good citizens of Tucker County. Judge Moore, speaking for this Court, and drawing on the seminal opinion of Bradley v. Fisher, 80 U.S. (13 Wall.) 335, 351, 20 L.Ed. 646 (1871) (<HOLDING>), held in Syllabus Point 1: Where the subject
holding that the acts of a corporate officer done in his or her official capacity are acts of the corporation holding that judges have immunity from suit for judicial acts recognizing judicial immunity for acts committed within their judicial jurisdiction holding that absolute immunity protects  judges  so long as their acts are judicial  in nature internal quotation omitted holding that judges of courts of superior or general jurisdiction are not liable to civil actions for their judicial acts even when such acts are in excess of their jurisdiction and are alleged to have been done maliciously or corruptly