United States Ninth Circuit

When a state removes a case to federal court, it waives Eleventh Amendment immunity.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/12/2003
• Decided 03/16/2004
• Published 03/16/2004

Judges

• Before CANBY, JR., KLEINFELD, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Susan T. Kumagai (briefed) and Gary T. Lafayette (argued), Lafayette & Kumagai, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for appellant Regents of the University of California.


• For Appellees:
  
• Fred M. Blum, Bassi, Martini & Blum, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Andrew Thomas Sinclair, Sinclair Law Office, Oakland, CA, for the appellee.