State sovereign immunity
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From 221 U.S. 636 - Hopkins v. Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina · 1911Most cited · 492 citing opinions
With the exception named in the Constitution, every state has absolute immunity from suit. Without its consent it cannot be sued in any court, by any person, for any cause of action whatever. And, looking through form to substance, the 11th Amendment has been held to apply, not only where the state is actually named as a party defendant on the record, but where the proceeding, though nominally against an officer, is really against the state, or is one to which it is an indispensable party.