Graham v. Ill. Dep't of Juvenile Justice

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• explaining that a Maryland Court of Appeals had found that a statute had abrogated Eleventh Amendment immunity, and deferring to the State court’s reading of its own law
• noting that the Plaintiff conceded the Defendant school board to be an agent of the State, citing Lewis v. Bd. of Educ. of Talbot Cty., 262 F.Supp.2d 608, 612-13 (D. Md. 2003)
• noting that the three exceptions to state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment are (1) unequivocal congressional abrogation, (2) suits for prospective injunctive relief against state officials, and (3) waiver through a state constitutional provision or statute
• discussing state and federal decisions recognizing that Maryland’s county school boards are “instrumentalities of the State” for Eleventh Amendment immunity purposes
• noting the Ex Parte Young exception is “inapplicable here, because the complaint does not name as defendants any officials of the State of Maryland”
• noting state’s highest court had construed a state statute as consenting “to suit in federal court”

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