John W. Brennan v. University of Kansas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that as an arm of the state, the University of Kansas was immune from suit via the Eleventh Amendment
• applying Eleventh Amendment immunity to KAAD claims asserted against defendant Wichita State University
• University of Kansas and University Press of Kansas immune as alter egos of the state
• “The power of the [] court to correct defective jurisdictional allegations concerns defects of form, not substance.”
• \The forum state will give effect to foreign law as long as the foreign law is not repugnant to the moral sense of the community.\
• “There is no question that a state agency, functioning as an arm, an alter ego of the state, cannot be sued in federal court because of the prohibition of such suits by the Eleventh Amendment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).