BENNETT ET AL.

v.

WILLIAMS

Citator

Cited By (59 total)

• Smith v. Robinson, 468 U.S. 992 (U.S. 1984)
  …confusion in the Courts of Appeals over the proper interplay among the various statutory and constitutional bases for relief in cases of this nature, and over the effect of that interplay on the provision of attorney’s fees,8 we granted certiorari, 464 U. S. 932 (1983). II Petitioners insist that the Court of Appeals simply ignored the guidance of this Court in Maher v. Gagne, supra, that a prevailing party who asserts substantial but unaddressed constitutional claims is entitled to attorney’s fees under…
• Haw. Hous. Auth. v. Midkiff, 467 U.S. 229 (U.S. 1984)
  …the private property of A and transfer it to B solely for B’s private use and benefit.” Id., at 798. One judge dissented. [*236] On applications of HHA and certain private appellants who had intervened below, this Court noted probable jurisdiction. 464 U. S. 932 (1983). We now reverse. We begin with the question whether the District Court abused its discretion in not abstaining from the exercise of its jurisdiction. The appellants have suggested as one alternative that perhaps abstention was required unde…
• Zatler v. Louie L. Wainwright, 802 F.2d 397 (11th Cir. 1986)
  …ee also Williams v. Bennett, 689 F. 2d 1370, 1376-77 (11th Cir.1982) (the eleventh amendment has been applied to bar prisoner’s section 1983 damage claims brought in federal court against prison officials in their official capacities), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 932, 104 S.Ct. 335, 78 L.Ed.2d 305 (1983). Therefore, “[a]bsent a legitimate abrogation of immunity by Congress or a waiver of immunity by the state being sued,” Gamble v. Florida Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services, 779 F. 2d 1509, 1511 (11t…

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