Selva Kumar v. Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that every court has the power to determine if it has the capacity to hear and decide the merits of the case before it
• holding that a party may be punished for disobeying a court order even if the court was ultimately determined to lack jurisdiction to issue the order
• holding that, as sovereign, Virginia agency is not a “person” capable of bringing suit under § 1983
• holding that, as sovereign, Virginia agency is not a “person” capable of bringing suit under § 1983
• holding that district courts have discretion in fashioning appropriate coercive remedies in cases of civil contempt
• holding that so long as jurisdiction exists, a party must obey a court's order even if the court’s action is erroneous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).