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In a recent opinion, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the "Sabine River Authority, State of Louisiana" ("SRA-L") is not entitled to Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity.

SCRANTON – A transportation equipment operator has insisted that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation failed to accommodate his disability and later fired him for alleged comments he made in a Facebook post.

United States is a federal system each state has sovereign status from Eleventh Amendment. South Dakota has soverign immunity waiver in case law Masad v. Weber, citing Sisney v. Reisch. Tennessee waived contractual sovereign immunity via statute and has proper contracts

It’s the Friday before Memorial Day Weekend here in the United States. Given the holiday weekend, this installment of our Sovereign Immunity Series will be light, as we will cover just...

Earlier this month, in response to the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued the Eleventh Amendment to the declaration...

SCRANTON – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is seeking to dismiss multiple counts from a lawsuit filed by a transportation equipment operator who claimed it failed to accommodate his disability, and later fired him for alleged comments he made in a Facebook post.

HARRISBURG – A component of the U.S. Department of Transportation has rejected claims from an environmental nonprofit group the highway agency failed to conduct environmental impact reports for a proposed highway extension, as required by the National Environmental Policy Act.

For the last three years, the federal government has taken considerable steps to aid providers in the fight against COVID-19. Although many of the waivers and flexibilities initiated in...

The Supreme Court ruled 8–1 against journalists seeking documents from a financial control board in Puerto Rico created ...

SAFE Banking Gets a Senate Hearing - The Senate Banking Committee has scheduled a hearing on May 11 for the bipartisan Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act. The ...