William McCurdy v. Sheriff of Madison County

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] county or other local unit of government is not ‘the state’ for purposes of th[e] [Eleventh] amendment.”
• “[T]he sheriff was acting as the agent of the state court system, which is, of course, a part of the state for purposes of the Eleventh Amendment.”
• “A frivolous suit does not engage the jurisdiction of the federal courts.’’
• “A frivolous suit does not engage the jurisdiction of the federal courts.’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).