Sherry Ross v. Jefferson County Department of Health

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Alabama Health Department was an arm of the state entitled to sovereign immunity
• holding that plaintiff waived her race discrimination claim by responding “no” when asked during her deposition whether she thought that her termination was related to her race
• holding there was no discriminatory discharge where the plaintiff testified that she did not believe race was the cause for her termination
• holding county boards of health are “arms of the state” because Alabama courts have uniformly treated county boards of health as state agencies
• finding the fact that health department was funded by county insufficient to “ ‘tip the balance’ against immunity” because there was no evidence that county exerted control over the department
• “As to the fourth factor, our precedent holds that liability by the state treasury is not determinative of whether a governmental entity should enjoy Eleventh Amendment immunity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).