Bennett v. City of Atlantic City

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that Congress did not abrogate state immunity when enacting 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983 or 1985
• determining that New Jersey’s Department of Personnel and Merit System Board were entitled to the protection of sovereign immunity
• stating that the Eleventh Amendment “applies regardless of whether a private plaintiffs suit is for money damages or some other type of relief’
• “ The State also has not explicitly waived Eleventh Amendment immunity for claims brought in federal court under the NJLAD.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).