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Bogan v. Scott-Harris, 523 U.S. 44, 13 (1998)

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BOGAN v. SCOTT-HARRIS

Opinion of the Court

orities of the city and the services the city provides to its constituents. Moreover, it involved the termination of a position, which, unlike the hiring or firing of a particular employee, may have prospective implications that reach well beyond the particular occupant of the office. And the city council, in eliminating DHHS, certainly governed "in a field where legislators traditionally have power to act." Tenney, supra, at 379. Thus, petitioners' activities were undoubtedly legislative.

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For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the Court of Appeals is reversed.⁶

It is so ordered.

⁶ Because of our conclusion that petitioners are entitled to absolute legislative immunity, we need not address the third question on which we granted certiorari: whether petitioners proximately caused an injury cognizable under § 1983.

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