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Don Karns v. Kathleen Shanahan

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Abrogated
Court
Third Circuit
Citation
879 F.3d 504
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
43 of 43
Treatment dates
2026
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. Don Karns v. Kathleen Shanahan is abrogated in part. All 43 flagged citations have been read.
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Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corp. held that New Jersey Transit is not an arm of New Jersey for interstate sovereign immunity, displacing Karns's contrary arm-of-the-state conclusion. Karns's separate qualified immunity rulings were not decided in Galette. The confirmed treatment is listed below.

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43 citations to Don Karns v. Kathleen Shanahan 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

Abrogated

  • The Supreme Court rejected Karns's conclusion that New Jersey Transit is an arm of New Jersey for interstate sovereign immunity.

    Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corp. · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    NJ Transit is not an arm of New Jersey and thus is not entitled to share in New Jersey’s interstate sovereign immunity.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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