Swint v. Chambers County Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing “Congress has not abrogated state sovereign immunity . . . under § 1983”
• discussing whether issue is “pivotal and debatable” as guiding discretion, which overlap virtually entirely with statutory criteria
• counseling “resistance to expansion of appellate jurisdiction” over issues not implicated in interlocutory appeals
• “Congress thus chose to confer on 12 district courts first[-]line discretion to allow interlocutory appeals [under § 1292(b)].”
• “Congress . . . circumscribed [a district court’s] authority to certify for immediate appeal interlocutory orders deemed pivotal and debatable.”
• “We need not definitively or preemptively settle here whether or when it may be proper for a court of appeals, with jurisdiction over one ruling, to review, conjunctively, related rulings that are not themselves independently appealable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).