Zaneta (Joi) Rainey Lightfoot v. Henry County School District

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• concluding that state regulation to receive funding was insufficient to show the requisite control for Eleventh Amendment immunity when the schoOl'districts at’issue retained substantial autonomy
• holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion by declining to construe plaintiffs ADA retaliation claim as being based on different facts than the ones actually pled in her ADA count
• holding that school district and school board are not arms of the state
• concluding that school board’s receipt of “significant funding from the State” was not sufficient to tip the balance toward immunity on third Manders factor, as the school board itself retained substantial local control over its own budget
• finding that the fourth Manders factor □ disfavored immunity because of the school board's ability to raise its funding
• finding that the school district failed to establish the “requisite control for Eleventh Amendment purposes” even though the Governor had authority to suspend school board members if a school became at risk of losing its accreditation

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