Douglas Wain, et ux., Petitioners v. Kimberly Nell Bunnell, Chief Regional Judge, 22nd Judicial Circuit Division 9, Fayette County, Kentucky, et al.

1. Whether absolute judicial immunity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 bars a civil rights claim against a state court judge who issued a dispositive ruling against plaintiffs three days after being served at her judicial chambers with those same plaintiffs' federal civil rights complaint naming her as a defendant, where the ruling dismissed counterclaims that had been pending for nearly six years at a hearing noticed only for limited procedural matters? 2. Whether Williams v. Pennsylvania, 579 U.S. 1 (2016), and Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U.S. 868 (2009), which together establish that the Due Process Clause requires mandatory disqualification where a judge has a significant personal stake in a matter adverse to a litigant, create a constitutional limitation on the scope of absolute judicial immunity when the judge's “judicial act” is itself the source of the constitutional violation — specifically, the act of issuing a ruling while subject to a direct personal adversarial conflict with the parties before her? 3. Whether absolute judicial immunity extends to judicial acts taken after a judge has been served at her judicial chambers with a § 1983 civil rights complaint naming her as a defendant, where those acts directly and adversely affect the plaintiffs in that same § 1983 action, thereby creating the precise conflict of interest that Williams v. Pennsylvania and Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. held constitutionally intolerable?