In 1996, the Supreme Court took the legal community by surprise in a sharply divided opinion addressing the extent of Congress's power to infringe on states' Eleventh Amendment immunity. Seminole Tribe v. Florida'held that Congress lacks the authority toWelter, Elizabeth...
Nicole E. Grodner Four Pathways of Undermining Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett Derek Warden The Constitutional Status of the ADA: An Examination of Alsbrook V. City of Maumelle in Light of Recent Supreme Court Decisions concerning the 11th Amendment ...
The high court's decision in Tennessee vs. Lane case means that individual plaintiffs can seek monetary relief for alleged ADA violations by states, which had claimed that the Constitution's 11th Amendment granted t...