Legal Opinion
Hess v. Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 14, 1994No. 93-1197PublishedCited by 695 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
These paired cases arise out of work-related accidents in which a locomotive engineer and a train conductor, employees of a bistate railway authorized by interstate compact, sustained.personal injuries. The courts below — the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit— rejected both complaints on the ground that the Eleventh Amendment sheltered respondent railway from suit in federal court. We granted certiorari to resolve an intercircuit conflict on this issue. 510 U. S. 1190 (1994). Concluding that respondent…
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