Third Circuit· 12/18/2003

Youngblood v. DeWeese

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352 F.3d 836
2003 WL 22977471

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concluding that legislative immunity was grounds for dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6)
concluding without any “consideration[ ] of intent and motive” that a legislator’s appropriation of state funds was legislative activity
granting legislative immunity to two defendant representatives’ allocation of district office funds from the legislative appropriation because it was a legislative act
relying on the second 4 rationale: the allocation of party resources is integral to other matters within the 5 legislature’s jurisdiction under the Constitution
Bogan held “municipal officials were immune from a plaintiffs claim that the officials violated her civil rights when they enacted a budget that eliminated her position”
“The scope of state legislators’ immunity is ‘coterminous’ with the absolute immunity afforded to members of Congress under the Speech or Debate Clause, Art. I, § 6, of the United States Constitution.” (citation omitted)

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Judges: Ambro, Nygaard, Scirica

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