Legal Opinion
Welch v. Texas Department of Highways & Public Transportation
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 25, 1987No. 85-1716PublishedCited by 755 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Powell
The question in this case is whether the Eleventh Amendment bars a state employee from suing the State in federal court under the Jones Act, ch. 250, 41 Stat. 1007, 46 U. S. C. § 688.
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The Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation operates a free automobile and passenger ferry be*471tween Point Bolivar and Galveston, Texas. Petitioner Jean Welch, an employee of the State Highway Department, was injured while working on the ferry dock at Galveston. Relying on § 33 of the Jones Act, 46 U. S. C. § 688, she filed suit in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Texas…
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