Penrice v. Oliver

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that agency’s “status ... under state law” is factor in “determining] whether eleventh amendment immunity extends to an entity”
• holding entity created by state transportation act was not an arm of the state
• holding entity created by state transportation act was not an arm of the state
• stating that “[b]e-cause NJT’s status under New Jersey law is uncertain, the analysis of this factor does not significantly help in determining whether NJT is entitled to immunity from suit in federal court”
• discounting the pertinence to the immunity' inquiry of New Jersey’s Tort Claims Act because it applies to political subdivisions as well
• substantial degree of control over the New Jersey Transit Corporation (“NJT”) by the governor weighed “slightly” in favor of according immunity to the NJT

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).