Does the Eleventh Amendment bar a plaintiff from bringing a civil action against a state?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Mitchell v. Brown, No. 2:14-cv-2993 MCE AC (PS) (E.D. Cal. 2015):
The Eleventh Amendment bars suits against a state, absent the state's affirmative waiver of its immunity or congressional abrogation of that immunity. Papasan v. Allain, 478 U.S. 265,
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