Coleman v. New Jersey

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that an inmate is entitled to assistance in a disciplinary hearing when the inmate is illiterate or the issues extremely complex
• noting that Ex Parte Young only applies to claims against individual defendants
• noting the Court’s “usual practice” of allowing the district court “to consider Eleventh Amendment immunity in the first instance”
• “the boundaries of the supposed ‘right’ must be sufficiently definite so that the official understood that his actions violated it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).