Whiting v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a community college was not an arm of the state entitled to sovereign immunity
• explaining that “[t]he Eleventh Amendment generally bars suits in federal court by private individuals against non-consenting states,” and “immunity from suit” applies to “certain actions against state agents and instrumentalities.”
• alternating between (1) a six-factor test evaluating entity’s structure and treatment under state law and (2) a two-factor test considering extent of state responsibility for judgment and state supervision of the entity
• no “effective [state] control over decision-making” established when governor appointed four out of ten board members
• tab reference to “Education” with link to website for Hartland School
• “Sovereign immunity does not, however, extend to local governments or municipalities.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).