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Jeffrey D. Lavia v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Corrections, State Correctional Institution at Greene

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Good law
Court
Third Circuit
Citation
224 F.3d 190
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
82 of 82
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Jeffrey D. Lavia v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Corrections, State Correctional Institution at Greene remains good law: all 82 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated the decision. The citing opinions repeatedly applied Lavia positively for Pennsylvania's Eleventh Amendment immunity, the Department of Corrections' status as an arm of the Commonwealth, and the waiver-or-valid-abrogation framework.
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Their nearby “abrogated” language concerned Congress's power to abrogate state sovereign immunity, while the sole nearby “overruled” reference concerned a rejected request to reconsider other precedent. One additional trigger appeared in an unrelated case-history parenthetical.

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.

82 citations to Jeffrey D. Lavia v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Corrections, State Correctional Institution at Greene 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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