Goonewardena v. New York

How courts have described this case

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• holding that sovereign immunity “also extends to damage actions against state employees acting in their official capacities because the state is the real party in interest”
• holding sovereign immunity “does not shield the individual defendants in their official capacities” from ADA claims
• asking whether abrogation under Title II is a congruent and proportional response to the history of discrimination against the disabled in the context of access to public education
• applying Georgia and concluding that Congress validly abrogated state sovereign immunity under Title II with respect to discrimination against the disabled in access to education
• applying Georgia and concluding that Congress validly abrogated state sovereign immunity under Title II with respect to discrimination against the disabled in access to education
• dismissing plaintiffs Title VI claim where he “fail[ed] to allege that he reported any incidents of discrimination to [the defendant’s] officials”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).