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The Eleventh Amendment bars federal courts from hearing most suits against state governments — but the bars are not absolute, and the constitutional warrior who knows the doctrine completely can reach the courthouse on behalf of clients that sovereign immunity would otherwise leave without a federal remedy.
The Eleventh Amendment Warrior: The Complete Guide to State Sovereign Immunity, the Ex Parte Young Doctrine, Section 5 Abrogation, and Suing State Government in Federal Court is Volume XVIII of Wayne Richard Evangelista's Constitutional Law Series — the complete practitioner's guide to sovereign immunity law, the doctrines that limit it, and the strategies for working around it when it cannot be overcome directly.
Wayne Richard Evangelista covers the complete sovereign immunity landscape: the Eleventh Amendment's text and its Hans v. Louisiana expansion to suits by in-state citizens; the Alden v. Maine extension of immunity to state court suits; Ex parte Young and the officer suit doctrine that enables prospective injunctive and declaratory relief against state officials violating federal law; congressional abrogation under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment — when it works (Nevada v. Hibbs, Tennessee v. Lane) and when it fails (Kimel, Garrett); voluntary waiver and consent doctrines; the Federal Tort Claims Act framework for suing the federal government including the discretionary function exception; and state officer personal liability under Hafer v. Melo and related cases.
For civil rights practitioners, disability rights lawyers, employment discrimination attorneys, and anyone who needs to hold state government accountable in federal court, this volume provides the complete roadmap around every immunity barrier.
The Eleventh Amendment Warrior
$69.99
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$69.99
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