Sovereign immunity, due process, and the Alden trilogy. From: The Yale Law Journal | Date: June 1, 2000| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2000 Yale University, School of Law. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

On the last day of the Supreme Court's 1998 Term, the Justices delivered their opinions in Alden v. Maine(1) from the bench with great drama, reportedly holding spectators spellbound for close to an hour.(2) The Court's holding in that case that the doctrine of sovereign immunity protects states from being sued in their own courts without their consent even on federal claims has been the subject of much commentary, most of it unfavorable.(3) What has received less attention is that, in another decision handed down the same day, Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board ...

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