Lawrence M. Fleming v. Department of Public Safety, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

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• concluding the Northern Mariana Islands lack Eleventh Amendment immunity because it was not expressly conferred upon them
• holding that when section 502(a)(2) governs, it requires not only that the law being applied through section 502(a)(2) be effective in the CNMI as it is in the States, but also that the CNMI be treated as if it were a State for purposes of that law
• overruled on other grounds by Will v. Michigan Dept. of State Police, 491 U.S. 58, 71 (1989)
• Sections 1981 and 1983 apply to Northern Mariana Islands

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