Legal Opinion
United States v. Alabama Department of Mental Health & Mental Retardation
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 16, 2012No. 10-15976PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Judge:
Plaintiff-Appellee the United States brought an action against Defendant-Appellant Alabama Department of Mental Health (ADMH). The United States claimed that ADMH violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), 38 U.S.C. § 4301 et seq., when it failed to rehire longtime employee Roy Hamilton after his service in Iraq with the Alabama National Guard. ADMH moved to dismiss the case based on sovereign immunity. 1 The district court denied ADMH’s motion. The district court subsequently found that ADMH had violated USERRA by not immediately…
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