Reeder v. Madigan

Dist. Ct. did not err in granting on immunity grounds defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff-reporter’s section 1983 action alleging that defendants violated his First Amendment right to freedom of press by denying his request for media credentials for Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois Senate, where defendants held belief that plaintiff’s employer was lobbyist, and where House and Senate had rule than banned lobbyists from having access to floor of each chamber that credentials would have given to plaintiff. Defendants were entitled to absolute legislative immunity, where instant denial concerned subject matter that was within defendants’ core legislative activities.