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Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt
was a 2019
United States Supreme Court
case that determined that, unless they consent, states have
sovereign immunity
from private
lawsuits
filed against them in the courts of another state. The
5–4
decision overturned
precedent
set in the 1979 Supreme Court case
Nevada v. Hall
. This was the litigants' third time presenting their case to the Supreme Court, which had previously ruled on the issue
initially in 2003
and
subsequently in 2016
. This
courtroom sketch
by the American sketch artist
Arthur Lien
depicts
Erwin Chemerinsky
presenting oral arguments for the respondent in the 2019 case, with the Supreme Court justices
Elena Kagan
and
Brett Kavanaugh
looking on in the background.
Illustration credit:
Arthur Lien
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