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Sixth Circuit: No Eleventh Amendment Immunity When ADA Claim Includes Fourteenth Amendment Violations
Loaded on July 15, 2010
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2010, page 48
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Disabled Prisoners,
Americans with Disabilities Act,
Eleventh Amendment Immunity,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Michigan.
On January 5, 2010, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Michigan district court’s denial of Eleventh Amendment immunity for a claim involving both a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12131, et seq., and the Equal Protection Clause of the ...
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