United States Fifth Circuit

In a civil rights class action under the Americans with Disabilities Act, defendant-Texas waived its state sovereign immunity from suit by individuals when it removed the case from state court to federal district court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/20/2005
• Published 05/20/2005

Judges

• DENNIS, Circuit Judge:, Before WIENER, BENAVIDES, and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Hampton Skelton, Skelton, Woody & Arnold, Austin, TX, Charles R. Shaddox, Shaddox, Compere, Walraven & Good, San Antonio, TX, Stephen R. Senn (argued), Peterson & Myers, Lakeland, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Sarah Elaine Harrington, Jessica Dunsay Silver, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div.-Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for Intervenor United States., James C. Harrington, Texas Civil Rights Project, Austin, TX, for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lisa Royce Eskow (argued), Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Austin, TX, Rance Lamar Craft, Amy Warr, Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.