PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The two top former executives at Rhode Island’s economic development agency want immunity from liability over its failed $75 million investment in Curt Schilling’s video game company because they were public officials who were doing their jobs and following orders, their lawyers said Tuesday.

Former Economic Development Corp. Executive Director Keith Stokes and Deputy Director Michael Saul are seeking protection under what their attorneys concede would be an unprecedented expansion of the “public duty” immunity doctrine.