Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Browder v. McArthur

5 L. Ed. 397

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1822-02-21
Topic
general

“[N]either a State nor its officials acting in their official capacities are ‘persons’ under § 1983.”

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The Court denied the motion, being of opinion that it was too late to grant a rehearing in a cause after it had been remitted to the Court below, to carry into effect the decree of this Court, according to its mándate; and that a subsequent appeal from the Circuit Court, for supposed error in.carrying into *59 effect such mandate, brought up only the proceedings subsequent to the mandate, and did not authorize an inquiry into the merits of the original decree.

Motion denied.

He cited 2 Madd. Chan. 390, 3 P. Wms. 8. 2 Atk. 439.