Rhodes v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• adopting functional analysis of Lake Country and finding that absolute immunity applied to legislative decisions of local officials
• county council members absolutely immune for their actions in adopting controverted zoning ordinances
• legislative immunity applies to “legislators of any political subdivision of a state function[ing] in a legislative capacity”
• “County council members are absolutely immune when performing legislative acts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).