A public employee is not liable for injury caused by his instituting or prosecuting any judicial or administrative proceeding within the scope of his employment, even if he acts maliciously and without probable cause.
Cal. Gov. Code § 821.6
Liability of Public Employees
Known as the Government Claims Act
The act spans §§ 810–998 (301 sections).
Applied in 81 court decisions — leading case 52 Cal. 3d 1 - Shoemaker v. Myers (1990)
Most recently applied in Tiffany Tabares v. City of Huntington Beach (February 2021)
Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1681.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.