Alex W. Olson v. Durant Community School District

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “state officials – not state institutions – can be sued for equitable relief under § 1983” (emphasis in original)
• recognizing that “state officials – not state institutions – can be sued for equitable relief under § 1983” (emphasis in original)
• holding that “[i]n this circuit, a state’s removal of a suit to federal court waives sovereign immunity only if the state has consented to suit in its own courts”
• holding that “Congress has not abrogated sovereign immunity for § 1983 suits”
• recognizing that “Congress has not abrogated sovereign immunity for § 1983 suits”
• explaining that “[t]o determine if this exception applies, [the court] consider[s] ‘whether [the] complaint alleges an ongoing violation of federal law and seeks relief properly characterized as prospective’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).