United States v. Charles Hallinan

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “a suit against a state official in his or her official capacity is not a suit against the official but rather is a suit against the official’s office” and thus the state
• exercising jurisdiction over appeal of a denial of a motion to dismiss “asserting [sovereign] immunity from the entire suit”
• exercising jurisdiction over appeal of a denial of a motion to dismiss “asserting [sovereign] immunity from the entire suit”
• “the question of state-sovereign immunity is . . . conclusively determined by the denial of a motion to dismiss”
• “Defendants have been sued in their official capacities and are therefore representing their respective state agencies (which are proper Title IJ defendants) for all purposes except the Eleventh Amendment.”
• “Supreme Court precedent makes clear that ‘a suit against a state official in his or her official capacity is not a suit against the official but rather is a suit against the official’s office.’” (quoting Will v. Mich. Dep’t of State Police, 491 U.S. 58, 71 (1989

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).