Rosita C. Youngblood v. H. William Deweese; Michael Veon

PRECEDENTIAL
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
No. 03-1722
ROSITA C. YOUNGBLOOD; PARENTS UNITED
FOR BETTER SCHOOLS, INC.; PENN-KNOX
NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION; BUDD HOUSE
INC; EDITH WEEKS, Reverend; EDWINA BAKER
v.
H. WILLIAM DEWEESE; MICHAEL VEON,
Appellants
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
(D.C. Civil Action No. 02-cv-07683)
District Judge: Honorable J. Curtis Joyner
Argued October 29, 2003
Before: SCIRICA, Chief Judge, NYGAARD and AMBRO, Circuit Judges
(Opinion filed December 18, 2003 )
Andre' L. Dennis, Esquire
Danielle Banks, Esquire (Argued)
Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young
260 One Commerce Square
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Attorney for Appellants
Anthony L. Cianfrani, Esquire (Argued)

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Suite 1920
1500 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Attorney for Appellees
ORDER AMENDING SLIP OPINION
AM BRO, Circuit Judge
It is now ordered that the published Opinion in the above case filed December 18,
2003, be amended as follows:
On page 8 of the slip opinion, three lines from the top of the page, replace the
word “is” with the word “are” so that the phrase reads: “house members are “within the
sphere ...”
On page 8 of the slip opinion, five lines from the bottom of the full paragraph,
after the cite 528, replace the long dash (“—”) with a semi-colon, followed by a space
(“; ”).
On page 8 of the slip opinion, in the last sentence of the full paragraph replace the
word “is” with the word “are” so the sentence reads:
“Representatives DeWeese and Veon’s “deliberative and communicative
processes” in the course of exercising that legislative authority are,
therefore, privileged from judicial scrutiny.”
On page 9 of the slip opinion, in the first sentence under section V, the Conclusion,
replace the words “is a” with “are” and add an “s” to the word “act” so that the sentence
reads:
“We hold that Representatives DeWeese and Veon’s acts of allocating the
General Assembly’s office-staffing appropriation among individual
Representatives are legislative acts to which legislative immunity extends.”
By the Court,
/s/ Thomas L. Ambro, Circuit Judge
Dated: February 11, 2004

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