Wente v. Ohio Bur. of Motor Vehicles

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that Parden erred in finding a clear congressional intent to subject the States to suit
• holding that the Jones Act does not abrogate the States’ Eleventh Amendment immunity
• indicating that the question whether a state has waived its immunity is different from the question whether Congress has abrogated the states' immunity
• noting that the Jones Act applied the remedial provisions of the FELA, and applying FELA cases to a Jones Act case
• noting that state does not waive Eleventh Amendment immunity in federal courts merely by waiving sovereign immu nity in state court
• indicating that the question whether a state has waived its immunity is different from the question whether Congress has abrogated the states’ immunity

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