Gilbert v. Dagrossa

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the United States is immune from suit unless it has expressly waived its sovereign immunity
• stating that the United States is immune from suit unless it has expressly waived its sovereign immunity and that “sovereign immunity cannot be avoided by naming officers and employees of the United States as defendants”
• suits against officers and employees of the United States in their official capacities are barred by sovereign immunity absent an explicit waiver
• “It has 2 long been the rule that the bar of sovereign immunity cannot be avoided by naming officers and 3 employees of the United States as defendants.”
• “It is well settled that the United States is a sovereign, and, as such, is immune 24 from suit unless it has expressly waived such immunity and consented to be sued.”
• “It is well settled that the United States is a sovereign, and, as such, is immune from 22 suit unless it has expressly waived such immunity and consented to be sued.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).