Hudson v. City of New Orleans

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that state agencies and officials acting in their official capacities are protected by sovereign immunity unless explicitly waived
• finding that the source of funding is the most important Clark factor
• including among the factors relevant to the arm-of-the-state analysis “[w]hether the entity is concerned primarily with local as opposed to statewide problems”
• finding that the source of funding is the most important Clark factor
• agreeing with the district court’s assessment that the first factor pointed in different directions and declining “to count it either in support for, or denial of, Eleventh Amendment immunity”
• holding, in a “close” case, that “the balance ultimately tilts against Eleventh Amendment immunity” because “[m]ost importantly, . . . public funds from the state treasury will not be used to cover an adverse judgment against the entity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).