Docket nos. 01-298 End date 2002 | Citations 535 U.S. 613 (more) | |
Full case name Lapides v. Board of Regents of University System of Georgia Majority Breyer, joined by unanimous People also search for College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board | ||
Lapides v. Board of Regents of University System of Georgia, 535 U.S. 613 (2002), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which ruled that a state voluntarily waives at least part of its Eleventh Amendment immunity when it invokes a federal court's removal jurisdiction. There has subsequently been a "circuit split" in federal courts regarding whether a state waives immunity from liability or only a federal form.
Justice Stephen Breyer delivered the Opinion of the Court.
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