Hawaii v. Gordon

How courts have described this case

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

• lawsuit seeking to order the United States to convey land to the state of Hawaii
• “[T]he general rule is that relief sought nominally against an officer is in fact against the sovereign if the decree would operate against the latter.”
• relief sought nominally against an officer is in fact against the sovereign if the decree would operate against the latter
• suit against federal official was effectively against United States because prospective relief would, inter alia, “affect the public administration of government agencies” impacted by official’s action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).