Martinez v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the court will entertain new issues raised for the first time on appeal only in extraordinary circumstances
• “Even when a State consents to suit in its own courts ... it may retain Eleventh Amendment immunity from suit in federal court.”
• “Because the district court did not identify which factual issues it consid- ered genuine, one option is to analyze the record to determine those issues of fact the court likely considered genuine.”
• “[T]he Act waives state sovereign immunity only in Texas state courts.”
• “A denial of . . . qualified immunity is immediately appealable under the collateral[-] order doctrine . . . .” (quoting Rodriguez v. Neeley, 169 F.3d 220, 222 (5th Cir. 1999)); Walton v. City of Verona, 82 F.4th 314, 320 (5th Cir. 2023
• report- ing a prison beating

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).