Sturdevant v. Paulsen

How courts have described this case

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• declining to conclusively resolve the interplay between the Risk Management Fund and the state’s legal liability
• noting the “overlap” between the question of whether a judgment against an entity would be satisfied out of a state’s treasury and issues of the entity’s financial independence through receipt of state funding and any ability to issue bonds and levy taxes
• entity’s lack of taxing authority ultimately tipped the balance towards a finding of arm-of-the-state status
• “... a fundamental characteristic of a political subdivision [is] political control by some community other than the state as a whole.”
• “[T]he Board enjoys Eleventh Amendment immunity as an instrumentality or ‘arm’ of the State of Colorado.”
• “the inquiry . . . is whether [the entity] is more like a county or city than . . . like an arm of the state” (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).