Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett | |
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Argued October 11, 2000 Decided February 21, 2001 | |
Full case name | Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, et al. v. Patricia Garrett, et al. |
Citations | 531 U.S. 356 (more) 121 S. Ct. 955; 148 L. Ed. 2d 866; 2001 U.S. LEXIS 1700; 69 U.S.L.W. 4105; 11 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 737; 2001 Cal. Daily Op. Service 1471; 2001 Daily Journal DAR 1857; 2001 Colo. J. C.A.R. 968; 14 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 92 |
Case history | |
Prior | 989 F. Supp. 1409 (N.D. Ala. 1998), aff'd in part and rev'd in part, 193 F.3d 1214 (11th Cir. 1999), cert. granted, 529 U.S. 1065 (2000). |
Subsequent | 261 F.3d 1242 (11th Cir. 2001), vacated on rehearing, 276 F.3d 1227 (11th Cir. 2001), on remand, 223 F. Supp. 2d 1244 (N.D. Ala. 2002), vacated and remanded, 344 F.3d 1288 (11th Cir. 2003), on remand, 354 F. Supp. 2d 1244 (N.D. Ala. 2005), opinion after remand, 359 F. Supp. 2d 1200 (N.D. Ala. 2005). |
Holding | |
Congress's enforcement powers under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution did not extend to the abrogation of state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment if the discrimination was rationally based on a disability. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Rehnquist, joined by O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas |
Concurrence | Kennedy, joined by O'Connor |
Dissent | Breyer, joined by Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. amends. XI, XIV |
Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett, 531 U.S. 356 (2001), was a United States Supreme Court case about Congress's enforcement powers under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court decided that Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act was unconstitutional, insofar as it allowed states to be sued by private citizens for money damages.