Dixon v. BALTIMORE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a state is immune from suit in federal court if it first consents to it, the State of Maryland has not waived its Eleventh Amendment immunity to suit in federal court
• dismissing the plaintiffs complaint against the Baltimore City Police Department because the police department was a state agency and Maryland had not waived its Eleventh Amendment immunity to suit in federal court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).