legislative-immunity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-755 Andrew S. Clyde, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, et al. v. William McFarland, in His Official Capacity as Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. House of Representatives, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-12 Denied congressional-immunity congressional-rules constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations judicial-review jurisdiction legislative-immunity legislative-procedure separation-of-powers speech-or-debate-clause twenty-seventh-amendment Whether the Speech or Debate Clause creates a jurisdictional bar to judicial consideration of whether internal congressional rules or practices violat…
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 Whether state legislators can invoke legislative privilege to shield their deliberative processes and communications from discovery in voting rights l…
22-178 Robert R. Cushing, Individually and in His Capacity as the Minority Leader of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, et al. v. Sherman Packard, Speaker of the House of the New Hampshire House of Representatives First Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response Waived ada circuit-split civil-rights legislative-immunity official-capacity rehabilitation-act Whether state legislators are immune from complying with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
22-7 Joe Carollo v. William O. Fuller, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied discretionary-function eleventh-circuit legislative-immunity mitchell-v-forsyth municipal-elected-official municipal-official policy-making qualified-immunity scott-v-harris Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' narrow application of the legislative-immunity doctrine to a municipal-elected-official departs-from-an…
21-6299 Daryl Cook v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collusion conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution constitutional-rights due-process legislative-immunity political-association prosecutorial-discretion standing Whether the procedure due process violation, a federal complaint caused the settlement of the state court to be void ab initio and whether petitioner'…
21-606 Donald Shooter v. Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech legislative-immunity legislative-procedure qualified-immunity standing Does this case present an important question not previously decided by the Supreme Court in which an elected member of the Arizona Legislature engaged…
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…
20-6852 Cindy Bauer, fka Cindy Gamrat v. Edward McBroom, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fair-and-just-treatment fair-treatment legislative-immunity legislative-investigations-and-hearings pleading-standard pleading-standards sixth-circuit Whether Michigan's Article | § 17 affords Michigan citizens the protections of fair-and-just-treatment during legislative-investigations-and-hearings
20-738 Donald Grochowski, as Administrator of the Estate of Kenneth Grochowski, Deceased, et al. v. Clayton County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response Waived cell-design civil-rights detainee-safety due-process inadequate-staffing jail-conditions legislative-immunity objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity substantial-risk Whether the trial court and panel erred in failing to draw inferences in Grochowski's favor and find that the conditions and systems created a substan…
19-26 Darlene Collins, et al. v. Charles W. Daniels, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bail-reform constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment judicial-immunity legislative-immunity new-mexico-constitution sovereign-immunity Was the application of legislative immunity to actions of the New Mexico Courts to legislate policy outside of the authorities granted to them by the …
18-406 Aaron J. Schock v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine immunity legislative-immunity non-justiciability pendent-appellate-jurisdiction rulemaking-clause separation-of-powers speech-or-debate-clause Whether a member of the Legislative Branch may immediately appeal the denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment on Rulemaking Clause grounds