Lyons v. River Road Constr., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a party could not bring an action against a State official, because \[s]uch an action impermissibly seeks funds from the State treasury\
• dredging subcontractor's action against the director of the Alabama State Port Authority in his official capacity was an action for damages, not a declaratory-judgment action, and, thus, was barred by the doctrine of State immunity
• \The State cannot be sued indirectly by suing an officer in his or her official capacity when a judgment against the officer would directly affect the financial status of the State treasury.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).