Federal Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that Southern Illinois University and the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois are state agencies with Eleventh Amendment immunity
• relying on EEOC cases, court finds that private litigant’s delay of between 3 years/8 months and 5 years unreasonable
• “No authority supports Cannon’s argument that [the Eleventh Amendment] analysis is altered by the possibility that a damage award would be met through insurance proceeds or from federal funds”
• Southern Illinois University and the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois are state agencies with Elev- enth Amendment immunity
• “[B]ecause the state universities are the alter ego of the State…[i]f Cannon’s suit would result in a damage award payable by the universities, it is barred by the Eleventh Amendment.”
• “[B]ecause the state universities are the alter ego of the State…[i]f Cannon’s suit would result in a damage award payable by the universities, it is barred by the Eleventh Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).