Legal Opinion
Navreet Nanda v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Bellur Prabhakar, Gerald Moss
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 17, 2002No. 01-3448PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
Navreet Nanda, Ph.D., brought this discrimination action against her former employer, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, as well as her former supervisors and colleagues at the University (collectively “the University”). The University moved to dismiss Dr. Nanda’s complaint, principally on the basis that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. (“Title VII”), did not validly abrogate the State’s sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment. The district court rejected this argument and held that Congress…
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