sentences: "Justice Brennan wrote a dissent that was joined by Justice Marshall, Justice Blackmun and Justice Stevens.Brennan found that the Eleventh Amendment was inapplicable because Will had brought the case in State court and that in interpreting the word "person", the Court should take into account the "Dictionary Act", passed two months before § 1983, which said "[t]hat in all acts hereafter passed... the word 'person' may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate... unless the context shows that such words were intended to be used in a more limited sense..." In a previous case, "Monell v. New York City Dept.