Lombardo v. Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that in light of Lapides, a “State’s ability to raise sovereign immunity when it is involuntarily brought into federal court[]” is not affected
• holding that “the state sovereign immunity includes both immunity from suit in federal court and immunity from liability, and the state may waive one without waiving the other”
• explaining that “[t]he immunity of States from suit in the federal courts is a fundamental aspect of state sovereignty”
• explaining that “[t]he immunity of States from suit in the federal courts is a fundamental aspect of state sovereignty”
• explaining that a state waives its immunity “from suit” by removing a state action to federal court
• explaining that “[t]he immunity of States from suit in the federal courts is a fundamental aspect of state sovereignty”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).