United States Fifth Circuit

Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and - 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, do not validly abrogate a state's Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/26/2001
• Published 12/26/2001

Judges

• PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:, Before REAVLEY, HIGGINBOTHAM and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Kathleen A. Behan,Robert M. Cooper (argued), Gordon Nathaniel Lederman, Scott D. Helsel, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, June E. Denlinger, Keith Baker Nordyke, Melanie S. Fields, Nordyke & Denlinger, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Richard A. Curry (argued), Dan Edward West, Michael Brent Hicks, McGlinchey Stafford, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.