United Carolina Bank, Administrator Cta of the Estate of Seymour I. Somberg, Deceased v. Board of Regents of Stephen F. Austin State University

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• holding that the Eleventh Amendment barred a civil rights suit brought by a professor against university officials in their official capacities
• “Most telling is the power of junior colleges to levy ad valorem taxes [as] ... [u]nder Texas law, political subdivisions are sometimes defined as entities authorized to levy taxes.”
• “The majority of decisions concerning the eleventh amendment status of state universities have concluded the institutions involved were arms of the state.”
• The entity “could itself pay such an award because it had substantial unappropriated, separately held, locally generated funds.”
• where an institution’s governing body is elected by local voters rather than being appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the state senate, it is more likely a political subdivision than an arm of the state
• relying upon Jagnandan v. Giles, 538 F.2d at 1176

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