Legal Opinion
Litman v. George Mason University
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 28, 1999No. 98-1742PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
Annette Litman, a student at George Mason University in Fairfax,Virginia, filed this action against the University and some of its employees, alleging sex discrimination in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. To justify her suit against a state instrumentality in federal court, Lit-man relied on 42 U.S.C. § 2000d-7(a)(l), which provides that “[a] State shall not be immune under the Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution of the United States from suit in Federal court for a violation of ... title IX of the Education…
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