HANS v. LOUISIANA

No. 4.

134 U.S. 1 (1890)

HANS v. LOUISIANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 3, 1890.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.D. Rouse, (Mr. William Grant was also on the brief,) for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Walter H. Rogers, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, Mr. M.J. Cunningham, Mr. B.J. Sage and Mr. Alexander Porter Morse, for defendant in error, submitted on their briefs.


MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.

The question is presented, whether a State can be sued in a Circuit Court of the United States by one of its own citizens upon a suggestion that the case is one that arises under the Constitution or laws of the United States.

The ground taken is, that under the Constitution, as well as under the act of Congress passed to carry...

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