2BD ASSOCIATES v. Queen Anne's County Com'rs

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• concluding that a municipal zoning ordinance was a legislative action because it announced a “proscriptive, legislative-type rule” and derived from a legislative process
• explaining that legislative immunity has a two-fold effect of “protecting legislators from civil suit and [functioning] as an evidentiary and testimonial privilege”
• “[A]n official with title of legislator does not receive absolute immunity for actions that are administrative in nature, and conversely, an official whose title is that of an executive will receive absolute immunity for actions which are legislative in nature.”

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