How have the courts dealt with the issue of judicial immunity?

Chapman subsequently filed the present action in federal court, alleging civil rights violations and requesting compensatory and punitive damages and injunctive relief. The district court granted a temporary restraining order, which it later converted into a preliminary injunction. The district court dismissed the judicial defendants from the case on the basis of absolute judicial immunity. After requesting briefs from the parties, the district court dismissed the remainder of the complaint on the basis of Younger abstention. See Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971).