Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad v. Parsons

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “[t]he Eleventh Amendment bars a suit against a state or one of its agencies in federal court unless the state has waived its immunity or unless Congress has exercised its power under § 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to override that immunity.”
• explaining that “Eleventh Amendment immunity constitutes a jurisdictional bar”
• “Eleventh Amendment immunity constitutes a jurisdictional bar, and neither supplemental jurisdiction nor any other basis for jurisdiction overrides Eleventh Amendment immunity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).