Sherwinski v. Peterson,et al

How courts have described this case

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• deciding that the Texas Tort Claims Act does not waive 6 / 13 Eleventh Amendment immunity in federal court
• holding that the Texas Tort Claims Act waived sovereign immunity “in state court only.”
• recognizing that “[a] state does not waive Eleventh Amendment 6 Case: 19-60247 Document: 00515360474 Page: 7 Date Filed: 03/26/2020 No. 19-60247 immunity in federal courts merely by waiving sovereign immunity in its own courts”
• holding the Texas Tort Claims Act “waives sovereign immunity in state court only”
• “A state does not waive Eleventh Amendment immunity in federal courts merely by waiving sovereign immunity in its own courts.”
• “A state does not waive Eleventh Amendment immunity in federal courts merely by waiving sovereign immunity in its own courts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).