Larsen v. Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that state legislators sued in their official capacities “were entitled to the protections of legislative immunity from suit for [plaintiff’s] claim for prospective injunctive relief”
• concluding that state legislators sued in their official capacities “were entitled to the protections of legislative immunity from suit for [plaintiff’s] claim for prospective injunctive relief”
• stating that the impeachment of a state judge is reserved for the state legislature but that due process challenges to the impeachment process may be justiciable under certain circumstances
• holding legislative immunity applied to claims for damages against senators in their individual capacities
• requiring consideration of “the policies underlying legislative immunity” and of “the extent to which a court could order [the desired] relief”
• stating that resolving justiciability issues must precede a decision on the merits

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).