Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Wyoming Department of Transportation v. Straight
Wyo. Dep’t of Transp. v. Straight, 525 U.S. 982 (1998)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1998-11-09
- Topic
- litigation
How later courts describe this case
- determining that defendants’ conduct constituted waiver of personal jurisdiction defense
- waiver of Eleventh Amendment immunity by filing proofs of claim in bankruptcy court
- § 106(b) does not abrogate the sovereign immunity of a state but codifies the existing principle expressed in Gardner v. State of New Jersey, 329 U.S. 565, 67 S.Ct. 467, 91 L.Ed. 504 (1947), reh. denied 330 U.S. 853, 67 S.Ct. 768, 91 L.Ed. 1296 (1947
Citator
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Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit denied.