FRANCHISE TAX BD. OF CALIFORNIA v. HYATT

No. 17-1299.

139 S.Ct. 1485 (2019)

587 U.S. 230

FRANCHISE TAX BOARD OF CALIFORNIA, Petitioner v. Gilbert P. HYATT

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 13, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seth P. Waxman , Washington, DC, for the petitioner.

Erwin Chemerinsky , Berkeley, CA, for the respondent.

William C. Hilson, Jr. , Scott W. DePeel , Ann Hodges , Franchise Tax Board of the State of California, Sacramento, CA, James W. Bradshaw , Pat Lundvall , Debbie Leonard , McDonald Carano LLP, Las Vegas, NV, Seth P. Waxman , Paul R.Q. Wolfson , Daniel Winik , Joshua M. Koppel , James Barton , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Erwin Chemerinsky , University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA, Mark D. Rosenbaum , Alisa Hartz , Public Counsel, Donald J. Kula , Perkins Coie LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Paul Hoffman , Schonbrun Seplow Harris & Hoffman LLP, Hermosa Beach, CA, Joel W. Nomkin , Perkins Coie LLP, Phoenix, AZ, for respondent Gilbert P. Hyatt.

For U.S. Supreme Court briefs, see:

2018 WL 6600840 (Reply.Brief)

2018 WL 4358112 (Pet.Brief)

2018 WL 6062443 (Resp.Brief)


This case, now before us for the third time, requires us to decide whether the Constitution permits a State to be sued by a private party without its consent in the courts of a different State. We hold that it does not and overrule our decision to the contrary in Nevada v. Hall,

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