Constitutional Law
Apr. 17, 2001
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One of the most dramatic changes in the law in recent years has been the U.S. Supreme Court's significant expansion in state sovereign immunity. The court's most recent ruling on Feb. 21, in Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett, 121 S.Ct. 955 (2001), held that state governments may not be sued for employment discrimination in violation of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
One of the most dramatic changes in the law in recent years has been the U.S. Supreme Court's significant expansion in state sovereign immunity. The court's most recent ruling on Feb. 21, in Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett, 121 S.Ct. 955 (2001), held that state gover...
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