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Andrus ex rel. Andrus v. Arkansas

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Good law
Court
Eighth Circuit
Citation
197 F.3d 953
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
28 of 28
Citing cases (total)
28
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Andrus ex rel. Andrus v. Arkansas remains good law: all 28 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated the decision. Later courts applied its rules allowing prospective injunctive relief against a state official when the complaint sufficiently requests it, and barring official capacity damages claims under the Eleventh Amendment.
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Their references to abrogation concerned Congress's power to remove sovereign immunity, not Andrus.

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.

28 later cases cite Andrus ex rel. Andrus v. Arkansas; 28 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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