Burgoon v. ALA. STATE DEPT. OF HUMAN RES.

How courts have described this case

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

• “A trial court must dismiss an action against a State agency or against a State agent acting in an official capacity at the earliest opportunity.”
• \A trial court must dismiss an action against a State agency or against a State agent acting in an official capacity at the earliest opportunity.\
• “[A] county department of human resources is considered to be a State agency for purposes of asserting the defense of sovereign immunity.”
• \A trial court must dismiss an action against a State agency or against a State agent acting in an official capacity at the earliest opportunity.\
• \State agents enjoy absolute immunity from suit in their official capacities.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).