Legal Opinion
Richard Anderson Photography v. Radford University
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided April 23, 1986No. Civ. A. 85-0373-RPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KISER, District Judge.
At issue in this copyright infringement action is whether the Commonwealth of Virginia has waived its Eleventh Amendment immunity. I hold that it has not.
I. Facts
Plaintiff Richard Anderson Photography (Anderson) has brought this copyright infringement action pursuant to the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq., against Radford University, an educational institution of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Visitors of Radford University, and Radford’s Director of Public Relations and Information, Deborah L. Brown. In 1981, Radford entered into a…
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