American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees v. Virginia

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, if Parden’s reasoning were followed today, “Congress could, despite the Eleventh Amendment’s prohibition [under Seminole], authorize a citizen to sue the Commonwealth in federal court simply because the Commonwealth engaged in commerce.”
• holding plaintiffs’ contention that FLSA’s 1974 amendments were passed to remedy discrimination “amounts to an unwarranted expansion of the scope of Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence to proscribe economic distinctions not related to race, sex or national origin.”

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