Poirier v. Massachusetts Department of Correction

How courts have described this case

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

• stating Ex parte Young does not permit a plaintiff to “obtain such relief against a state or its agency”
• upholding dismissal of intimate association claim by prison guard fired for romantic relationship with former inmate, holding that “unmarried cohabitation of adults does not fall within any of the Supreme Court’s bright‐line categories for fundamental rights”
• “States and their agencies are entitled to sovereign immunity ‘regardless of the relief sought.’ ” (quoting Kentucky v. Graham, 473 U.S. 159, 167 n.14 (1985))
• “States and their agencies are entitled to sovereign immunity regardless of the relief sought.” (cleaned up)
• “States and their agencies are entitled to sovereign immunity regardless of the relief sought.” (cleaned up)
• “States and their agencies are entitled to sovereign immunity regardless of the relief sought.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).