Illinois Central R. R. v. Jordan

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Ex parte Young “exception to sovereign immunity only authorizes suit against officials with the authority to provide the requested relief” (emphasis added)
• finding that the Ex parte Young “exception to sovereign immunity only authorizes suits against officials with the authority to provide the requested relief”
• finding that the Ex parte Young “exception to sovereign immunity only authorizes suits against officials with the authority to provide the requested relief”
• noting that reinstatement is prospective relief in case where plaintiff was terminated from state employment
• noting that although individual defendant whose comments created inference of retaliation “did not herself terminate plaintiff, her role in his termination may constitute an adverse action in its own right”
• allowing case to proceed solely against university president after ruling that terminated professor’s suit against fifteen individual defendants “cast [plaintiff’s] claims too broadly for Ex parte Young”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).