JMB Group Trust IV v. Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System is an arm of the State where the duties and responsibilities of the Retirement System are “totally defined and limited by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the provisions of the Pennsylvania Code”
• holding, in contravention of Hess, that because retirement system is “subject to the direction and control” of the State, “the court need not address whether a judgment against the PMRS would have an effect upon the Pennsylvania State Treasury”
• Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System is “an ‘arm’ or ‘alter-ego’ of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania…for purposes of the Eleventh Amendment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).