Nevada v. Hall

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Nevada v. Hall
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 7, 1978 Decided March 5, 1979
Full case name	Nevada et al. v. Hall et al.
Docket no.	77-1337
Citations	440 U.S. 410 (more) 99 S. Ct. 1182
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Decision	Opinion
Case history
Prior	Hall v. Univ. of Nevada, 74 Cal. App. 3d 280, 141 Cal. Rptr. 439 (Ct. App. 1977); cert. granted, 436 U.S. 925 (1978).
Subsequent	Rehearing denied, 441 U.S. 917 (1979).
Holding
States have no sovereign immunity from suits against them in courts of other states.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Stevens, joined by Brennan, Stewart, White, Marshall, Powell
Dissent	Blackmun, joined by Burger, Rehnquist
Dissent	Rehnquist, joined by Burger
Overruled by
Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt (2019)

Nevada v. Hall, 440 U.S. 410 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case that ruled that U.S. states lack sovereign immunity from private lawsuits filed against them in the courts of another state. The majority opinion held that "nothing in the Constitution authorizes or obligates" states to grant sister states immunity in court.^[1] States may grant sister states immunity if they choose. This decision was overturned by the 2019 case Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt.^[2]