Bogan v. Scott-Harris

How courts have described this case

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• holding that municipal officials are immune from § 1983 suits against them in their individual capacities for their legislative activities
• finding that legislative acts can be performed by an executive branch official
• granting executive official legislative immunity for enactment of ordinance which “bore all the hallmarks of’ traditional legislative action
• “[W]e now hold that local legislators are likewise absolutely immune from suit under § 1983 for their legislative activities.”
• establishing absolute legislative immunity for local legislators

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).