Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corp.

607 U. S. 509 (2026) · 3/04/26

The New Jersey Transit Corporation is not an arm of the State of New Jersey and thus is not entitled to share in New Jersey’s interstate sovereign immunity.

In 1979, the New Jersey Legislature created the New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) as a “body corporate and politic with corporate succession” and constituted it as an “instrumentality of the State exercising public and essential governmental functions” but “independent of any supervision or control” by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. N. J. Stat. § 27:25–4(a). The State gave NJ Transit significant authority, including the power to make bylaws, sue and be sued, make contracts, acquire property, raise funds, own corporate entities, adopt regulations, and exercise eminent…

Held: NJ Transit Corporation is not an arm of New Jersey and thus is not entitled to share in New Jersey's interstate sovereign immunity. Pp. 519–536. *Together with No. 24–1113, New Jersey Transit Corporation et al. v.