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Warning! The Manufacturer Of This Product May Have Engaged In Cover-Ups, Lies, And Concealment: Making The Case For Limitless Punitive Awards In Product Liability Lawsuits, Cynthia R. Mabry
Indiana Law Journal
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Section 1983 In The Second Circuit, Honorable George C. Pratt
Section 1983 In The Second Circuit, Honorable George C. Pratt
Touro Law Review
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Section 1983 Litigation, Martin A. Schwartz
What Is Eleventh Amendment Immunity?, Carlos Manuel Vázquez
What Is Eleventh Amendment Immunity?, Carlos Manuel Vázquez
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The Supreme Court's Eleventh Amendment decisions give conflicting signals about what the Amendment does. On one view, the Amendment functions as a forum-allocation principle--immunizing states from liability in suits filed in federal court, but leaving open the possibility that states may be compelled to entertain suits against themselves in their own courts. A separate line of cases, however, implies that state courts enjoy an immunity from suit in their own courts and that nothing in the Constitution withdraws such immunity; on this view, the Eleventh Amendment, by protecting the states from suit in the federal courts, effectively immunizes the states …