Lapides v. Board of Regents of Univ. System of Ga.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that state of Georgia’s “action joining the removing of this case [involving state law claims] to federal court waived its Eleventh Amendment immunity”
• holding that a state’s removal of a suit to federal court resulted in that state’s waiver of Eleventh Amendment immunity
• holding that a state’s removal of a state-court lawsuit to federal court constitutes a waiver of the state’s Eleventh Amendment immunity
• concluding that removal is a form of voluntary invocation of federal jurisdiction that constitutes the waiver of a state’s Eleventh Amendment immunity from suit
• holding that “a state is not a ‘person’ against whom a § 1983 claim for money damages might be asserted”
• holding that a “[s]tate’s action joining the removing of [a] case to federal court waive[s] its Eleventh Amendment immunity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).