Legal Opinion
Biomedical Patent Management Corp. v. California
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided October 23, 2007No. 2006-1515PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’MALLEY, District Judge. *
The issue presented in this appeal is whether a State is entitled to assert its sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment where the State intervened in an earlier, related action that was dismissed for improper venue. The district court concluded that a State was entitled to assert its Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity in those circumstances and, accordingly, granted a motion to dismiss on that ground filed by Defendant-Appel-lee State of California, Department of Health Services (“DHS”). Plaintiff-Appel lant, Biomedical Patent Management Corporation…
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