Federal Bankruptcy Jurisdiction After October 4, 1982

How courts have described this case

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• holding that depositions of local 5 legislators are barred by legislative privilege even in “extraordinary circumstances.”
• acknowledging that “extraordinary circumstances . . . might justify an exception to the privilege” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that “plaintiffs are generally barred from deposing local legislators, even in extraordinary circumstances”
• noting a categorical “exception would render the privilege ‘of little value.’ ” (quoting Tenney, 341 U.S. at 377)
• “However, [Commissioner] Ellison and [Commissioner] Wesson were only two people in a process that incorporated multiple layers of decisions and alterations from the entire Commission, as well as the City Council.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).