People v. Lighthart

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How courts have described this case

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• holding that Article I does not permit Congress to subject nonconsenting States to private suits in their own courts
• holding that “the constitutional principle of sovereign immunity does pose a bar to federal jurisdiction over suits against nonconsenting States”
• holding that Congress cannot use its Article I powers to subject non-consenting states to suit in state court
• holding that Congress cannot use its Article I powers to subject non-consenting states to suit in state court
• noting that the federal Constitution began “with the principle that sovereignty rests with the people”
• holding that states possess sovereign immunity from federal suits in state courts

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