Sichone v. Gonzales

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• concluding that sovereign immunity precluded suit against members of the Senate and House of Representatives because the Senator and Representative were acting in their official capacities
• finding that sovereign immunity applied to a member of the House of Representatives and a U.S. Senator, explaining that, when “acting in their official capacities, [they] enjoy the envelope of the Congress’ sovereign immunity[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).