Ford v. Florida

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the doctrine of sovereign immunity precludes the maintenance of actions for the recovery of money against the State unless the State has consented to be sued
• holding that the doctrine of sovereign immunity precludes the maintenance of actions for the recovery of money against the State unless the State has consented to be sued
• explaining that issue preclusion is appropriate only \where that issue was necessary to the resolution of the [earlier] action\
• allowing potentially unconstitutional statute to stay in effect because of res judicata would needlessly exalt form over substance
• stating “for the purposes of claim preclusion, two causes of action are the same if they can be supported by the same evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).