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· 1/17/2014

United States v. Wurie

Citations

  • 134 S. Ct. 999
  • 187 L. Ed. 2d 848
  • 82 U.S.L.W. 3424
  • 571 U.S. 1161
  • 2013 WL 4402108
  • 2014 U.S. LEXIS 650

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that the “Supreme Court has allowed immediate appeals from” interlocutory denials of Eleventh Amendment immunity, absolute and qualified immunity, foreign sovereign immunity, and tribal sovereign immunity
  • finding state-action immunity is immunity from liability, not suit, and “can be protected by a post-judgment appeal”
  • finding state-action immunity is immunity from liability, not suit, and “can be protected by a post-judgment appeal”
  • “A final decision is typically one by which a district court 12 disassociates itself from a case.”
  • “[M]unicipalities . . . may not rely on . . . Eleventh Amendment immunity.”
  • “[T]he state[ ]action doctrine is a defense to liability, not immunity from suit.”

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