Hines v. Georgia Ports Authority

How courts have described this case

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• holding “the Ports Authority is not an arm of the state under the federal law governing Eleventh Amendment immunity”
• “A state court decision that an organization is an ’agency’ of the state for purposes of state-conferred immunity is different from a determination under federal law as to whether an organization is an ’arm of the state’ for Eleventh Amendment purposes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).