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BROWN v. CRAWFORD COUNTY, GA.

No. 91-8344.

960 F.2d 1002 (1992)

Clarence Eugene BROWN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CRAWFORD COUNTY, GA., Defendant, Alfornia Hatcher, Perry Atkinson, Raymond Corbin, Freddie Tidwell, and David Moncrief, individually and in their official capacities as members of the Board of Commissioners of Crawford County, Ga., and John Doe and other unknown individuals, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

May 20, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Warren Plowden, Jr., Jones, Cork & Miller, Gregory C. Morton, Macon, Ga., Thomas M. Green, Mincey & Green, Roberta, Ga., for defendants-appellants.

Charles A. Mathis, Jr., Mathis, Jordan & Adams, Harold S. Lewis, Milledgeville, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HATCHETT and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

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 study 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...

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