Legal Opinion
Regents of University of California v. Doe
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 19, 1997No. 95-1694PublishedCited by 965 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
The narrow question presented by this case is whether the fact that the Federal Government has agreed to indemnify a state instrumentality against the costs of litigation, including adverse judgments, divests the state agency of Eleventh Amendment immunity. We hold that it does not.
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Respondent, a citizen of New York, brought suit against the Regents of the University of California and several individual defendants in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Although he alleged other claims, we are concerned only with respondent’s breach-of-contract claim…
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