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· 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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