Kentucky v. Graham

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that an official-capacity suit against a judge who presided over state-court litigation was barred by the Eleventh Amendment
• holding that claims against officials in their official capacity are effectively claims against the entity that employs them
• holding that suits against state officials in their official capacities should be treated as suits against the State
• holding that claims for damages against a state officer acting in his official capacity are barred by the Eleventh Amendment
• holding that a claim against a state agent in his official capacity should be treated as a suit against the state entity
• holding that “a municipality cannot be made liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on a 12 respondeat superior basis”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).