Missouri v. Fiske

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the Eleventh Amendment applies “to suits in equity” when such equitable remedies are asserted “by an individual against a State”
• finding that a suit for Eleventh Amendment purposes involves “ ‘process sued out by [the] individual against the state, for the purpose of establishing some claim against it by the judgment of a court’ ”
• holding “intervention was too limited in character to constitute a waiver.”
• \This is not less a suit against the State because the bill is ancillary and supplemental\
• “This is not less a suit against the State because the bill is ancillary and supplemental”
• the purpose of protecting federal jurisdiction does not remove a case from the reach of the Eleventh Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).