Legal Opinion
Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni v. Board of Regents of the University of California, University of California, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 11, 1994No. 93-2021PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
Dr. Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni (“Dr. Mascheroni”) appeals two orders dismissing state law causes of action and a federal Title VII claim against his former employer, the Board of Regents of the University of California (the “Board of Regents”). While we affirm the court’s dismissal of the Title VII claim as time barred, we hold that the court improperly exercised jurisdiction over Dr. Mascheroni’s state law claims because the Eleventh Amendment shields the Board of Regents from suit in federal court for alleged state law violations.
I. BACKGROUND
The Board of Regents operates…
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