Legal Opinion
Marrapese v. Rhode Island
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided October 10, 1980No. Civ. A. 80-0167PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
PETTINE, Chief Judge.
This case is one of several now before the Court in which the State of Rhode Island is a named defendant in an action under Sec tion 1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983. It presents the difficult and important question whether Rhode Island can be required to appear in court and defend plaintiff’s § 1983 claim on the theory that § 9-31-1 of the Rhode Island General Laws 1 manifests a waiver of the State’s Eleventh Amendment immunity. After careful study of the issues involved, this Court concludes that R.I.G.L. § 9-31-1 does evidence a…
2Cases cited101 opinions
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