Robert W. Hall, an Individual v. State of Hawaii, a State of the United States

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• holding that the University of Hawaii and its board of regents “are clearly immune as agencies of the state”
• “Absent a state’s unequivocal consent, the Eleventh Amendment bars a federal court from entertaining a suit against that state, or one of its agencies or departments, based on state law”

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