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 Whether legislative leaders waive legislative privilege and Morgan doctrine protections when intervening to defend a state law in a private civil cons…
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 Should this Court vacate the Eighth Circuit's decision under United States v. Munsingwear?
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 Whether state legislative privilege is an absolute bar to discovery in civil rights litigation involving potential voting rights violations or whether…
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…
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 Whether legislators drew boundaries with a predominant racial intent