Somerville v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that state officers sued in their official capacities are not “‘persons’ subject to suit under section 1983”
• stating that state officers sued in their official capacity are not “persons” subject to suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
• stating that state officers sued in their official capacity are not “persons” subject to suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
• stating that “[n]either states nor state officers sued in their official capacity are ‘persons’ subject to suit under section 1983”
• stating that state officers sued in their official capacity are not “persons” subject to suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
• stating that “[n]either states nor state officers sued in their official capacity are ‘persons’ subject to suit under section 1983”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).