Simmat v. United States Bureau of Prisons

How courts have described this case

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• finding that 5 U.S.C. § 702 operates as “a general waiver of the government’s sovereign immunity from injunctive relief.”
• noting that claim against prison dentists acting in their official capacities “is in reality against the United States”
• holding sovereign immunity does not bar inmate from suing Bureau of Prisons for injunctive relief because the Bureau is an agency within the meaning of the Administrative Procedures Act
• discussing judiciary’s inherent authority to entertain actions seeking to enjoin constitutional violations
• discussing judiciary’s inherent authority to entertain actions seeking to enjoin constitutional violations
• “Although nominally brought against the prison dentists, Mr. Simmat’s claim is in reality against the United States.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).