legislative-privilege

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-219 In Re Warren Petersen, et al. 2024-08-28 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived constitutional-challenge high-ranking-officials legislative-intervention legislative-privilege morgan-doctrine state-law (1) Whether, in a private civil action challenging the constitutionality of a state law, the leaders of a state legislature waive the legislative priv…
23-847 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. North Dakota Legislative Assembly, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-06 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) civil-discovery civil-procedure civil-rights comity due-process federal-interests legislative-privilege standing state-legislators third-party-communications 1. Should this Court vacate the Eighth Circuit's decision under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950)? 2. Are state legislators abso…
23A476 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. North Dakota Legislative Assembly, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split eighth-circuit legislative-privilege mandamus subpoena-power voting-rights Question not identified.
23A452 Ben Toma, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-11-20 Presumed Complete discovery judicial-review legislative-immunity legislative-privilege state-legislators voting-rights Question not identified.
20-1073 John Does 1-10 v. Debra Haaland, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights congressional-immunity constitutional-law due-process federal-immunity free-speech legislative-immunity legislative-privilege libel speech-and-debate-clause Is election to Congress a license to libel anyone, anywhere, anytime, even when the libel is not in response to a press inquiry, does not concern pend…
18-1257 Peter Lee, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, California Ninth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied civil-rights district-boundaries hunt-v-cromartie legislative-privilege racial-gerrymandering redistricting shaw-claim shaw-v-reno summary-judgment united-states-v-gillock village-of-arlington-heights-v-metropolitan-housin In a case under Shaw v. Reno, 509 U.S. 630 (1993) ("Shaw claim"), and its progeny, alleging that a City Council racially gerrymandered new district bo…