Regents of University of California v. Doe

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• holding that the underlying legal question in Eleventh Amendment immunity analysis “is the entity’s potential legal liability”
• concluding that a community college was arm of the State where “the state [was] ultimately responsible for [its] lia- bilities”
• holding that the district court properly dismissed claims against state prisons “as barred by the Eleventh Amendment”
• holding that the district court properly dismissed claims against state prisons “as barred by the Eleventh Amendment”
• holding that only the states themselves, or a state agency or instrumentality that functions as an “arm of the state,” may invoke sovereign immunity or the immunity afforded by the Eleventh Amendment (internal quotations omitted)
• holding that a state university was entitled to Eleventh Amendment immunity despite the fact that the federal government had agreed to fully indemnify the university against the cost of litigation, including adverse judgments

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