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· 5/4/1994

Pullman Construction Industries, Inc. v. United States

Citations

  • 23 F.3d 1166
  • 73 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 1996
  • 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 10111
  • 25 Bankr. Ct. Dec. (CRR) 984
  • 1994 WL 167835

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that U.S. sovereign immunity does not give rise to collateral order review because, unlike Eleventh Amendment and Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, sovereign immunity confers right not to pay damages, not right to be free from suit
  • “Congress is free to authorize interlocutory appeals by the United States, but unless it does so the federal government, like private litigants, must wait for the final decision.”
  • “Typicality can be satisfied despite different factual 24 circumstances . . . . ”

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Judges: Cummings, Coffey, Easterbrook

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