City of Columbia v. Omni Outdoor Advertising, Inc.

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• holding that sham exception turns on distinction between using governmental process itself to commit wrongdoing versus benefitting from outcome of governmental process
• holding that a governmental entity does not lose its state action immunity when its actions benefit private parties nor when its actions were motivated by proprietary interests
• holding that there is-no conspiracy exception to either state action immunity doctrine or Noerr-Pennington doctrine
• holding that the right to petition precluded liability for lobbying in favor of a local zoning ordinance
• holding that the right to petition precluded liability for lobbying in favor of a local zoning ordinance
• recognizing inevitability and desirability of public officials acting in response to private citizens’ requests in rejecting argument for narrowing state action immunity

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