United States Second Circuit

The ADEA does not validly abrogate states' Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity so federal courts do not have subject matter jurisdiction over state defendants of age discrimination claims under the ADEA.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/20/2000
• Decided 05/23/2001
• Published 05/23/2001

Judges

• CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:, Before: CARDAMONE, SOTOMAYOR, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James T. Towne, Jr., Albany, NY (Thorn Gershon Towne Tymann and Bonanni, LLP, Albany, NY, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Laura Etlinger, Albany, NY (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Nancy A. Spiegel, Daniel Smirlock, Albany, NY, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.