Adamson v. Norwest Bank Indiana, N.A.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding private prison defendants “do not have an ‘official capacity’” for Eleventh Amendment purposes even though they can be liable under § 1983 for acts committed under color of law
• “rejecting] [plaintiffs] claim that the district court erred by granting a dismissal sua sponte without notice or a hearing” and noting that “ § 1915(e)(2)(B) allows a district court to dismiss a complaint ‘at any time’ ”
• “[T]he [private prison] defendants are not state actors, and they do not have an ‘official capacity’ . . . .”
• “[T]he CCA defendants are not state actors, and they do not have an ‘official capacity’ as that term is used under the Eleventh Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).