State Sovereign Immunity in Suits to Enforce Federal Rights
Publication Title
Washington University Law Quarterly
Abstract
This Article attempts to clarify the doctrine of sovereign immunity and its exceptions in its application to federal question cases. First, section II identifies the concept of state sovereign immunity. Section III discusses the liability of state officials, the doctrine principally used to avoid state immunity. Although the cases in section III involve non-federal claims, they are important because of their pervasiveness in the non-federal area and because they have often been applied without close analysis in federal question cases. Section IV, the heart of this Article, discusses the application of the doctrine of state sovereign immunity in federal question cases.
Recommended Citation
Samuel H. Liberman,
State Sovereign Immunity in Suits to Enforce Federal Rights,
1977 Wash. U. L. Q. 195
(1977).
Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol1977/iss2/1