David Johnson v. Supreme Court of Illinois

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “the Rooker- Feldman doctrine eliminates most avenues of attack on attorney discipline”
• noting that rules may only be contested \if they are separable from the decision in an individual licensing or disciplinary case\
• dismissing action against the Supreme Court of Illinois and the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission because they were barred from suit by the Eleventh Amendment
• declining to remand based on error in immunity ruling where court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction
• “[S]tates and their agencies are not ‘persons’ subject to suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.”
• “[S]tates and their agencies are not ‘persons’ subject to suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).