Court Opinion

ID: 9466864
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 01:31:07.359162+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:40:01.265753
License: Public Domain

SNEED, Circuit Judge,
(concurring):
I concur in Judge Wallace’s opinion subject to two observations. It is clear to me *240that, as Judge Wallace’s opinion holds, the city council members have not brought themselves within the strict letter of the Allen footnote 5. No palpable threat of expulsion is alleged and I would afford Allen no larger scope in the operation of the law of standing. Second, standing should not turn on whether a public official might lack immunity in a civil proceeding under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. If Allen is to be extended to instances in which one horn of the dilemma is civil liability as a result of performance of the required duty, the probability of such liability should be quite high. Avoidance of either horn of the dilemma is always possible by a resignation with honor.