Legal Opinion
Grajales v. Puerto Rico Ports Authority
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 26, 2016No. 15-1278PPublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARRON, Circuit Judge.
State-created public corporations serve a range of special purposes. Sometimes states structure these entities to be so closely tied to the state government — in terms, among other things, of how they are funded and how they are supervised— that they are properly understood to be “arms” of the state itself. As a result, such entities may claim the very same sovereign immunity from suit that the state enjoys under the Eleventh Amendment of the United States Constitution. Sometimes, however, states structure these entities to operate at such a remove from the state…
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