Is a state agency immune from a private cause of action for damages brought in federal court?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Payne v. Cate, No. 2:12-cv-0243 JAM DAD P (E.D. Cal. 2015):
In the absence of a waiver by the state or a valid congressional override, under the Eleventh Amendment, state agencies are immune from private causes of action for damages brought in federal court. See Dittman v. California, 191 F.3d 1020, 1025-26 (9th Cir. 1999).
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