· 12/15/1983
Mattas v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Citations
- 576 F. Supp. 1178
- 1983 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10785
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- noting that “the government of the Commonwealth [includes] the courts and other offices and agencies of the unified judicial system . . .”
- “[T]he Office of the Disciplinary Counsel, as an entity, [is an] arm of the state and therefore cannot be sued.”
- “The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and the Office of the Disciplinary Counsel, as an entity, are arms of the state and therefore cannot be sued.”
- post-Monell case held Pennsylvania is not “person”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Cohill
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