Irizarry-Mora v. University of Puerto Rico

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the University of Puerto Rico is “an arm of the Commonwealth” and therefore entitled to sovereign immunity
• stating that “the Commonwealth’s investment, financial, and otherwise, in the UPR’s ability to fulfill its obligations of service to the people of Puerto Rico,’ puts Commonwealth funds at risk when University funds are at risk.”
• finding sufficient case-specific risk to the public fisc in part because the Commonwealth contributed at least 60% of the entity’s funding
• considering it probative that a university’s enabling statute made clear that the university was performing an important public role
• explaining the \arm-of-the state\ doctrine, which courts use to determine whether a particular public agency shares the state's sovereign 6 immunity
• identifying authority to issue bonds as an important indicator pointing away from immunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).