Duke v. Grady Municipal Schools

How courts have described this case

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

• “Eleventh Amendment immunity, however, ‘extends only to the states and governmental entities that are “arms of the state.”’” (quoting Watson, 75 F.3d at 574)
• “The final, but the most important, factor is whether the state treasury would be at risk of paying a judgment . . . .”
• “The Supreme Court has indicated more recently that ‘the vulnerability of the State’s purse is the most salient factor in Eleventh Amendment determinations’” (brackets omitted
• “[T]hat federal question can be answered only after considering the provisions of state law that define the agency’s character.” (quoting Regents of the Univ. of Cal. v. Doe, 519 U.S. 425, 429 n.5 (1997))
• New Mexico school districts and governing boards not arms of state

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).