George Weidemann Brewing Co. v. Com'th

How courts have described this case

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• denying legislative privilege to consultant independently contracted by partisan political party
• “The right to vote and the rights conferred by the Equal Protection Clause are of cardinal importance.”
• “[A]ny effort to disclose the communications of legislative aides and assistants who are otherwise eligible to claim the legislative privilege on behalf of their employers threatens to impede future deliberations by the legislature.”
• “In assessing the applicability of the legislative privilege, it is necessary to remember that the privilege is an outgrowth’of the doctrine of legislative immunity because the privilege was thought necessary to effectuate the immunity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).