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Nevada v. Hall

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
440 U.S. 410
Decided
Confirmed treatments
2
Flagged citations read
55 of 55
Citing cases (total)
55
Treatment dates
2016–2019
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. Nevada v. Hall was overruled: all 55 flagged citations have been read, and the 2 confirmed treatments are listed below. In 2019, the Supreme Court held that states retain immunity from private suits in other states' courts without consent.
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Its earlier 2016 Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt decision left Hall's jurisdiction rule in place but barred a state from awarding greater damages against a sister state than against its own agencies.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

55 later cases cite Nevada v. Hall; 55 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled

  • The Supreme Court overruled Hall and held that a state cannot be sued by a private party without consent in another state's courts.

    Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    This case, now before us for the third time, requires us to decide whether the Constitution permits a State to be sued by a private party without its consent in the courts of a different State. We hold that it does not and overrule our decision to the contrary in Nevada v. Hall, 440 U. S. 410 (1979).
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Limited

  • The Supreme Court left Hall's jurisdiction ruling in place but held that a state may not award greater damages against a sister state than against its own agencies in comparable circumstances.

    Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    In Nevada v. Hall, 440 U. S. 410 (1979), this Court held that one State (here, Nevada) can open the doors of its courts to a private citizen’s lawsuit against another State (here, California) without the other State’s consent. ... California also asks us to reverse the Nevada court’s decision insofar as it awards the private citizen greater damages than Nevada law would permit a private citizen to obtain in a similar suit against Nevada’s own agencies. We agree that Nevada’s application of its damages law in this case reflects a special, and constitutionally forbidden, ... “ ‘policy of hostility to the public Acts’ of a sister State,” namely, California.
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