Hafer v. Melo

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a defendant official acting in his official capacity receives the same immunity as the government agency to which he belongs
• holding that the Eleventh Amendment provides no shield for a state official confronted by a claim that he deprived another of a federal right
• holding that state officers “sued in their personal capacity ... fit comfortably within the statutory term ‘person.’ ”
• holding that suits against state officials in their official capacities are suits against the state
• holding that suits against state officials in their official capacities are suits against the state
• holding that individual capacity suit against Auditor General of Pennsylvania was not barred by Eleventh Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).