United States Third Circuit

The Eleventh Amendment does not bar a suit against a county court based on an alleged failure to provide interpretive services, where the judicial, but not all the administrative, functions of the court have been merged by steps into a unified state court system.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/24/2001
• Decided 12/28/2001
• Published 12/28/2001

Judges

• Before ROTH, BARRY and AMBRO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Clara R. Smit, East Brunswick, NJ, Marc Charmatz, Mary Vargas (Argued), Sarah Geer, Claudia Gordon, National Association of the Deaf Law Center, Silver Spring, MD, Attorneys for Appellant., Seth M. Galanter, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Attorney for Intervenor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Andrew J. Schragger, Ashley Bostic-Hutchinson (Argued), Office of County Counsel, County of Mercer, Trenton, NJ, Doulgass L. Derry (Argued), Office of Attorney General of New Jersey Department of Law & Public Safety, Trenton, NJ, John J. Farmer, Jr., Attorney General of New Jersey, Nancy Kaplen, Assistant Attorney General, Diane M. Lamb, Deputy Attorney General, Office of Attorney General of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ, Attorneys for Appellees.