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ECONOMOU v. U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE

No. 749, Docket 75-6050.

535 F.2d 688 (1976)

Arthur N. ECONOMOU, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 23, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis M. Steel, New York City (Eisner, Levy & Steel, P. C., David C. Buxbaum, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Mel P. Barkan, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Paul J. Curran, U. S. Atty., S. D. N. Y., Steven Glassman, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before MANSFIELD, TIMBERS and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.

MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

Having long recognized the privilege of judges and legislators as a complete defense to civil damage actions based on their official conduct, see Bradley v. Fisher, 80 U.S. (13 Wall.) 335, 20 L.Ed. 646 (1872) (judges); Tenney v. Brandhove, 341 U.S. 367, 71 S.Ct. 783, 95 L.Ed. 1019 (1951) (legislators),1 the Supreme Court in recent years has focused more sharply upon...

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