Harris v. Owens

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 relief requested is permissible under the doctrine of Ex parte Young
• “Once effectively raised, the Eleventh Amendment becomes a limitation on our subject-matter jurisdiction . . . .”
• “Once effectively raised, the Eleventh Amendment becomes a limitation on our subject-matter jurisdiction. . . .”
• “The later statute simply ad- dresses one particular application and carves out an exception. We see no repeal-by-implication problem.”
• plaintiff sought prospective relief when seeking portion of comprehensive tobacco settlement from the state, as the appropriation had yet to take place
• in case presenting identical issues, court noted that, although it agreed with the court in Floyd that the merits of the case were more easily resolved than was the Eleventh Amendment issue, it was \compelled by its precedent to decide the Eleventh Amendment issue first\

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