Legal Opinion
Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 23, 1999No. 98-531PublishedCited by 426 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
In 1992, Congress amended the patent laws and expressly abrogated the States’ sovereign immunity from claims of patent infringement. Respondent College Savings then sued the State of Florida for patent infringement, and the Court of Appeals held that Congress had validly abrogated the State’s sovereign immunity from infringement suits pursuant to its authority under § 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. We hold that, under City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U. S. 507 (1997), the statute cannot be sustained as legislation enacted to enforce the guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process…
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