Kitchen v. Upshaw

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Virginia Regional Jail Authority was a county agency for the purposes of a due process claim
• “[A]n insurance plan such as this does not suffice to extend the protection of sovereign immunity to ... the Regional Jail Authority.”
• “The Eleventh Amendment[ ] limits the Article III jurisdiction of the federal courts to hear cases against States and state officers acting in their official capacities.”
• “The Eleventh Amendment[ ] limits the Article III jurisdiction of the federal courts to hear cases against States and state officers acting in their official capacities.”
• “There is nothing in this section that indicates that a regional authority acts on behalf of the State when it sues or is sued and thus obliges the State to pay any judgment rendered against the authority.”
• “[T]he retention of substantial authority and control over the construction, governance, and operation of the regional authority, as well as the liability for most of the costs and expenses, tends to establish that the Authority is an arm of the participating local political subdivisions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).