Jordan v. Trainor’s Empirical Analysis
551 F.2d 152 · 1977
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
June 1979
most recently cited
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Hurst v. United States · Lewis v. Shulimson
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]hat portion of the District Court's decree which petitioner challenges on Eleventh Amendment grounds goes much further than [ Ex parte Young and the cases that had followed it]. It requires payment of state funds, not as a necessary consequence of compliance in the future with a substantive federal-question determination, but as a form of compensation to those whose applications were processed on the slower time schedule at a time when petitioner was under no court-imposed obligation to conform to a different standard. . . . It will to a virtual certainty be paid from state funds, and not from the pockets of the individual state officials who were the defendants in the action. It is measured in terms of a monetary loss resulting from a past breach of a legal duty on the part of the defendant state officials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quern v. Jordan“We agree with the panel's opinion that 4 The sending of the particular notice and the form of notice of appeal will order, in effect, the payment of state funds by retroactive award to the members of the plaintiff class for past action or inaction by the State of Illinois. In the form of notice to be sent, there is an admission by the State of Illinois that each member of the plaintiff class was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jordan v. Trainor“jurisdictional bar to the exercise of federal judicial power concerning past action or inaction of a state with respect to the Aid to the Aged, Blind, or Disabled Program.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quern v. Jordan
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