United States Fifth Circuit

A regional transportation authority organized under Tex. Transp. Code Ann. ch. 452 is not an arm of the state entitled to Eleventh Amendment immunity because it receives no appropriated funds from the state of Texas and a judgment against it would not be paid with state funds.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/22/2001
• Published 02/22/2001

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before POLITZ, SMITH and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William Clayton Isbell (argued), Law Office of William C. Isbell, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Harold R. McKeever (argued), Patricia Merian Reed, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dallas, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.