state-sovereign-immunity

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23-790 Matthew Flinders v. State Bar of California California 2024-01-23 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment age-discrimination bar-admission due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection privileges-and-immunities sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity (1) Whether the State Supreme Court and State Bar's denial of admission based on age violated Petitioner's rights to due process, equal protection, an…
23-751 0.12 Acres of Land, More or Less, in Washington County, Maryland, et al. v. Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response Waived citizen-suit eleventh-amendment eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction judicial-power natural-gas-act sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity Does the Eleventh Amendment's statement that "[t]he Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend" to suits "commenced or prose…
22-787 Troy University, et al. v. Sharell Farmer North Carolina 2023-02-21 Denied Amici (1) 11th-amendment constitutional-precedent corporate-registration sovereign-immunity state-courts state-sovereign-immunity sue-and-be-sued sue-and-be-sued-clause waiver-of-immunity Whether a State waives its sovereign immunity from private suit in the courts of another State by operating in the State under a corporate registratio…
21-1603 Canada Hockey, L.L.C., dba Epic Sports, et al. v. Texas A&M University Athletic Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied constitutional-violation copyright-infringement due-process federal-remedies knick-v-township-of-scott state-sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause united-states-v-georgia After this Court's decision in Allen v. Cooper, 140 S. Ct. 994 (2020), damages remedies for copyright infringements by state governments depend on eit…
21-7877 James Adeyemi v. Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eleventh-amendment public-safety-department retaliation-claim sovereign-immunity state-employees state-sovereign-immunity 1. Does the ELEVETH amendment of the US Constitution bars the claim of retaliation or discrimination under the title of the Americans with Disabilitie…
21-1175 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2022-02-24 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-order default-judgment federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure human-rights judicial-review state-sovereign-immunity Whether the DC Appeal Court for District of Columbia can ignore inexcusable neglect by the Superior Court of District of Columbia for failure to apply…
21-542 Michael Zito, et ux. v. North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission Fourth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process federal-claims federal-takings-claims fourteenth-amendment just-compensation just-compensation-clause sovereign-immunity state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's incorporation of the "self-executing" Just Compensation Clause abrogates state sovereign immunity from federal taki…
21-216 Roger Brown v. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights commercial-activity contract-impairment due-process eleventh-amendment governmental-function pro-se-rights state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity thacker-v-tva Both the lower Courts ' decisions contradict cases within its own circuit, other circuits, and this Court 's precedent in Thacker v TVA. Please cons…
20-6455 Patricia A. Wade v. Trustees of Indiana University, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process employer-liability judicial-review monetary-damages sovereign-immunity standing state-sovereign-immunity takings Unlike employees of local governments and private entities, employees of state entities are excluded from recovering monetary relief when injured by t…
20-603 Le Roy Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety Texas 2020-11-05 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-law due-process military-employment sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity uniformed-services-employment-and-reemployment-rig userra war-powers In the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), Congress gave the over 19 million military servicemembers—including…
20-24 Great Lakes Minerals, LLC v. Ohio, et al. Kentucky 2020-07-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure comity declaratory-relief individual-capacity injunctive-relief minimum-contacts sovereign-immunity state-jurisdiction state-sovereign-immunity I. Whether the Court's decision in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt, 139 S.Ct. 1485 (2019) extends a state's sovereign immunity to declarato…
19-1450 Samuel T. Russell v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment bill-of-rights case-law civil-rights congressional-authorization constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law-violations federal-rules-of-law founding-fathers state-sovereign-immunity When the lower Courts overlooked the Framers' written intent of the 11th Amendment (which plainly reads that States cannot be sued by "(1) Citizens of…
18-877 Frederick L. Allen, et al. v. Roy A. Cooper, III, Governor of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-08 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment article-i-power congress congressional-power constitutional-law copyright copyright-infringement copyright-remedy-clarification-act federal-power federal-remedies federal-statute intellectual-property sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity Whether Congress validly abrogated state sovereign immunity via the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act, Pub. L. No. 101-553, 104 Stat. 2749 (1990), in…
18-42 GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Louisiana Third Circuit 2018-07-09 Dismissed Amici (4) 11th-amendment absent-class-member civil-procedure class-action due-process federal-court federal-courts federalism opt-out rule-23 sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity Whether state sovereign immunity bars a federal court from binding a State to a Rule 23 class settlement as an absent class member plaintiff based on …