State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition v. Rowland

How courts have described this case

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

• “Conditioning public employment on union membership is [] subject to strict 5 scrutiny”
• “[T]he Eleventh Amendment generally does not bar claims for monetary damages against state officials in their individual capacities.”
• “[C]laims for monetary damages against the defendants in their individual capacities are not barred by the Eleventh Amendment.”
• “Where a complaint specifically seeks damages from defendants in their individual capacities, . . . [it] does not make the state the real party in interest.” (quotations and alterations omitted)
• “[A]t the time of defendants’ actions [in 2003] it was clearly established that firing employees based on political belief and association plainly constituted an unconstitutional condition, unless the employer showed that he had a vital interest in doing so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).