Legal Opinion
Cash v. Granville County Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 1, 2001No. 00-1496PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
We are required to determine in this case whether the Granville County (North Carolina) Board of Education enjoys Eleventh Amendment immunity in a suit brought by an employee against it under the Fair Labor Standards Act for overtime pay. The district court, finding that the Board was “an arm of the State” and that any monetary award “would affect the State,” held the Board immune. Because we conclude, for the reasons that follow, that the Board is more like a county than an arm of the State, we reverse.
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Mary Cash has, since 1975, been employed as a “Lead…
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