United States Fourth Circuit

The Eleventh Amendment does not bar plaintiff's disability discrimination and First Amendment retaliation claims where Congress validly abrogated the States' immunity under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/03/2005
• Decided 06/13/2005
• Published 06/14/2005

Judges

• Before TRAXLER, GREGORY, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Michael Jackson Beattie, Beattie & Associates, P.L.L.C., Fairfax, Virginia, for Appellant.  Kevin Kendrick Russell, United States Department Of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Intervenor.   William Eugene Thro, State Solicitor General, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia;  Thomas Martin Beck, Jones Day, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Jerry W. Kilgore, Attorney General of Virginia, Maureen Riley Matsen, Deputy State Solicitor General, Alison Paige Landry, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey Brandwine, Assistant Attorney General, Brian E. Walther, Assistant Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees.  R. Alexander Acosta, Assistant Attorney General, Jessica Dunsay Silver, United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., for Intervenor.   Claudia Center, Lewis Bossing, The Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, San Francisco, California, for Amici Curiae Supporting Appellant.