UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO

1:24-cv-00913-RMR Document 20 filed 05/14/24 USDC Colorado pg 3 of 5 decorum standards they adopted in the last session of the state legislature were tailored to ensure the efficient conduct of the legislative committee meetings on the particular legislation before the committees at that time. [...] Finally, there is a very real preliminary question – also raised in the Motion to Dismiss – as to the mootness of the entirety of Plaintiffs’ claims. [...] Plaintiffs’ “threatened injury” without an injunction at this point does not outweigh the injury to the Defendants of being required to conform to an injunction tailored to a hypothetical state of affairs. [...] 367, 377 (1951), “Legislators are immune from deterrents to the uninhibited discharge of their legislative duty, not for their private indulgence but for the public good.” While that comment addressed the issue of “absolute immunity” – an issue relevant to this case – it is also applicable to the placement of legislators, necessarily in their official capacities (thus implicating their successors. [...] I filed with the Court and served upon all parties herein a true and complete copy of the foregoing DEFENDANTS’ RESPONSE TO PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION by e-filing with the CM/ECF system maintained by the Court.