Beaulieu v. State of Vermont

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• distinguishing between No. 15-3384 5 Eleventh Amendment immunity and broader state sovereign immunity under Vermont law
• noting that both types of immunity may be waived
• distinguishing between Eleventh Amendment immunity and broader state sovereign immunity under Vermont law
• “Accordingly, there are two types of ‘sovereign immunity’ at issue here: (1) a particular species of sovereign immunity—Eleventh Amendment immunity from suit in federal court—and (2) the [S]tates’ broader general sovereign immunity against all suits.”
• participating in a federal litigation does not impliedly waive sovereign immunity
• discussing how statutory 7 language acknowledging “legal obligations under federal law” nonetheless “says 8 nothing about how that obligation may be enforced [and] does not constitute an 9 implicit, much less an explicit waiver of its sovereign immunity from private suit”

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