EX PARTE JUAN MADRAZZO

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Cited By (11 total)

• Atascadero State Hosp. v. Scanlon, 473 U.S. 234 (U.S. 1985)
  …a State was ultimately rejected by the Court as a ground to expand state sovereign immunity in federal court. See supra, at 270, n. 21. In 1833, the Court dismissed an original action brought by Madrazzo based on the same claim. Ex -parte Madrazzo, 7 Pet. 627 (1833). The Court’s one-paragraph opinion apparently dismissed the case on Eleventh Amendment grounds because it “is a mere personal suit against a state to recover proceeds in its possession.” Id., at 632. This was the only case dismissed by the Su…
• United States v. Lee, 106 U.S. 196 (U.S. 1882)
  …ough not brought against the State by name, but against the Governor in his official capacity, was a suit against the State, and therefore, by reason of the Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution, could not be maintained. See also Ex parte Madrazzo, 7 Pet. 627. In the case, on which the plaintiff principally relies, of Meigs v. M'Clung, 9 Cranch, 11, in which a Circuit Court of the United States, and this court on writ of error, gave judgment for the plaintiff in an action of ejectment for land held by t…
• Ex parte in the Matter of the State of N.Y., 256 U.S. 490 (U.S. 1921)
  …court and not of the district court in which it was brought; and it was held, further, that the decree could not be sustained as a proceeding in rem, because the thing was not in possession' of the district court. Subsequently, in Ex parte Madrazzo, 7 Pet. 627, . 632, an application was made to this court to entertain a suit in admiralty against the State of Georgia,, and it was held that as there was no property in the custody of the court of admiralty, or brought within its jurisdiction and in the posse…