Legal Opinion
Brown v. Crawford County
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 20, 1992No. 91-8344PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge:
This case concerns the question of whether county commissioners were entitled to absolute immunity when they voted to place a temporary moratorium on issuing permits for mobile homes in order to *1004study residential county development. The district court denied the commissioners’ motion to dismiss. Because the commissioners should have been accorded absolute legislative immunity, we reverse with instructions to grant the motion to dismiss.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
In 1987, Georgia Woodlands, Inc. (GWI) purchased a 330-acre tract of property in Crawford County, Georgia,…
2Cases cited43 opinions
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3Cited by24 opinions
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