Legal Opinion
Mills v. State of Maine
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 7, 1997No. 96-1973PublishedCited by 184 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STAHL, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to determine whether the Eleventh Amendment, as recently interpreted by the Supreme Court in Seminole Tribe v. Florida, — U.S. -, 116 S.Ct. 1114, 134 L.Ed.2d 252 (1996), bars a federal suit for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) brought by state employees against the State of Maine. The district court concluded that Seminole Tribe was a bar and dismissed the suit. For the reasons that follow, we affirm that ruling and thus find unconstitutional a grant of federal court jurisdiction contained in a provision of 29 U.S.C. § 216(b).…
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