Doe v. Division of Youth and Family Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that New 11 Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services is a state agency for Eleventh Amendment 12 purposes
• noting plaintiffs requesting injunctive relief “must allege a real and immediate threat of future injury”
• dismissing claims based on the Eleventh Amendment and concluding that “[t]he plaintiffs have not identified any provision of state law where New Jersey has expressly consented to suit in federal court under . . . the New Jersey Constitution”
• “Leave should be granted absent a showing of . . . ‘repeated failure to cure deficiencies by amendments previously allowed ....’” (quoting Foman v. Davis, 371 U.S. 178, 182 (1962))
• “Leave should be granted absent a showing of . . . ‘repeated failure to cure deficiencies by amendments previously allowed... .’”” (quoting Foman v. Davis, 371 U.S. 178, 182 (1962))
• “The Third Circuit has adopted a particularly liberal approach to the amendment of pleadings to ensure that a particular claim will be decided on the merits rather than on technicalities.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).