Gerber Life Insurance v. Wallace

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] plaintiff may not resort to the expedient of simply naming a state official as a defendant as a means of circumventing the Eleventh Amendment.”
• “[A] plaintiff may not resort to the expedient of simply naming a state official as a defendant as a means of circumventing the Eleventh Amendment.”
• “[I]nsofar as plaintiff asks this court to enjoin the Probate Court proceedings, the Younger doctrine mandates against an exercise of jurisdiction.”
• “Plaintiff asks this court to bar the Probate Court from, among other things, entering alimony decree and determining the visitation rights of the biological father of the child—interests that are fundamental and uniquely reserved to the states.”
• applying Younger to proceedings in probate court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).