Muthoka v. United States of America

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “sovereign immunity applies regardless of whether a private plaintiffs suit is for monetary damages or some other type of relief’
• holding that sovereign immunity operates to protect nonconsenting states from having to answer private complaints before the Federal Maritime Commission
• holding that 11th Amendment barred Federal Maritime Commission from adjudicating complaint filed by private party against unconsenting state
• holding that Congress may not use “Article I powers to create court-like administrative tribunals where sovereign im- munity does not apply”
• holding that the Eleventh Amendment barred suit against state for alleged violation of the Shipping Act of 1984, a federal statute
• holding that state sovereign immunity extends to administrative proceedings initiated by private parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).