arm-of-the-state

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25-640 Randall Williams, as Personal Representative of the Estates of Shanice R. Dantzler-Williams and Miranda R. Dantzler-Williams, et al. v. Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending arm-of-the-state county-office eleventh-amendment judgment-analysis sovereign-immunity state-liability When the State is not liable for a judgment against an entity, what weight should this fact be given in the arm-of-the-state immunity analysis of that…
25A12 City of Huntington Beach, California, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-02 Presumed Complete arm-of-the-state federal-circuit-split municipal-standing political-subdivision sovereign-immunity state-law-analysis Whether a political subdivision can be categorically barred from suing a state based on a per se rule, or whether courts must conduct a functional ana…
24A750 Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority v. Jeffrey Good, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-31 Presumed Complete arm-of-the-state circuit-split eleventh-amendment federal-courts sovereign-immunity state-instrumentality Whether an entity created by a state to perform essential public functions qualifies as an 'arm of the state' entitled to Eleventh Amendment sovereign…
18-1210 Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida v. Doris Freyre, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment ada ada-standing arm-of-the-state associational-claim child-protective-investigations child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity florida-statute-39.3065 grant-agreement judicial-restraint standing standing-associational-ada-claim state-immunity Whether the court of appeals violated this Honorable Court's 'fundamental rule of judicial restraint' by failing to address whether Doris Freyre had s…
18-342 City of Maplewood, Missouri v. Cecelia Roberts Webb, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response Waived arm-of-the-state constitutional-deprivation legal-definition mcmillian-v-monroe-county monell-liability monell-v-dept-of-soc-serv municipal-corporation-liability municipal-corporations municipal-court-divisions municipal-liability policy-custom real-party-in-interest sovereign-immunity state-entity unified-court-system Whether sovereign immunity bars a lawsuit against a municipal corporation that is defined to include a legally-distinct state entity, such that the re…