Legal Opinion
Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation v. Hood
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 17, 2004No. 02-1606PublishedCited by 304 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
Article I, §8, cl. 4, of the Constitution provides that Congress shall have the power “[t]o establish . .. uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States.” We granted certiorari to determine whether this Clause grants Congress the authority to abrogate state sovereign immunity from private suits. Because we conclude that a proceeding initiated by a debtor to determine the dis-chargeability of a student loan debt is not a suit against the State for purposes of the Eleventh Amendment, we affirm the Court of Appeals’ judgment, and we do not reach the question on which…
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