Anthony Della Grotta v. State of Rhode Island

How courts have described this case

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• cautioning “that waiver may not be inferred from a less than explicit statute … to protect a state from a federal court’s ill-founded, possibly mistaken, view of what its state legislature really intended”
• state that has waived 11 th Amendment immunity is “person” for section 1983 purposes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).