Warden v. Pataki

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that, although there is some authority to the contrary, the “vast majority of courts” hold “that a state official’s duty to execute the laws is not enough by itself to make that official a proper party in a suit challenging a state statute”
• “The well-settled doctrine of absolute legislative immunity ... bars actions against legislators or governors—and, a fortiori, legislatures—on the' basis of their roles in- enacting or signing legislation”
• internal citations and quotation (S.D.N.Y. 1999), aff'd sub nom. Chan v. Pataki, 201 F.3d 430 marks omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).