Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett

Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett
Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 11, 2000; Decided February 21, 2001
Full case name	Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, et al. v. Patricia Garrett, et al.
Citations	531 U.S. 356 (more) 121 S. Ct. 955; 148 L. Ed. 2d 866; 2001 U.S. LEXIS 1700; 69 U.S.L.W. 4105; 11 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 737; 2001 Cal. Daily Op. Service 1471; 2001 Daily Journal DAR 1857; 2001 Colo. J. C.A.R. 968; 14 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 92
Case history
Prior	989 F. Supp. 1409 (N.D. Ala. 1998), aff'd in part and rev'd in part, 193 F.3d 1214 (11th Cir. 1999), cert. granted, 529 U.S. 1065 (2000).
Subsequent	261 F.3d 1242 (11th Cir. 2001), vacated on rehearing, 276 F.3d 1227 (11th Cir. 2001), on remand, 223 F. Supp. 2d 1244 (N.D. Ala. 2002), vacated and remanded, 344 F.3d 1288 (11th Cir. 2003), on remand, 354 F. Supp. 2d 1244 (N.D. Ala. 2005), opinion after remand, 359 F. Supp. 2d 1200 (N.D. Ala. 2005).
Holding
	Congress's enforcement powers under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution did not extend to the abrogation of state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment if the discrimination was rationally based on a disability.
Court membership
	Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor; Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy; David Souter · Clarence Thomas; Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas
Concurrence	Kennedy, joined by O'Connor
Dissent	Breyer, joined by Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amends. XI, XIV

Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett, 531 U.S. 356 (2001), was a United States Supreme Court case about Congress's enforcement powers under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court decided that Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act was unconstitutional, insofar as it allowed states to be sued by private citizens for money damages.

Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 11, 2000 Decided February 21, 2001
Full case name	Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, et al. v. Patricia Garrett, et al.
Citations	531 U.S. 356 (more) 121 S. Ct. 955; 148 L. Ed. 2d 866; 2001 U.S. LEXIS 1700; 69 U.S.L.W. 4105; 11 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 737; 2001 Cal. Daily Op. Service 1471; 2001 Daily Journal DAR 1857; 2001 Colo. J. C.A.R. 968; 14 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 92
Case history
Prior	989 F. Supp. 1409 (N.D. Ala. 1998), aff'd in part and rev'd in part, 193 F.3d 1214 (11th Cir. 1999), cert. granted, 529 U.S. 1065 (2000).
Subsequent	261 F.3d 1242 (11th Cir. 2001), vacated on rehearing, 276 F.3d 1227 (11th Cir. 2001), on remand, 223 F. Supp. 2d 1244 (N.D. Ala. 2002), vacated and remanded, 344 F.3d 1288 (11th Cir. 2003), on remand, 354 F. Supp. 2d 1244 (N.D. Ala. 2005), opinion after remand, 359 F. Supp. 2d 1200 (N.D. Ala. 2005).
Holding
Congress's enforcement powers under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution did not extend to the abrogation of state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment if the discrimination was rationally based on a disability.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas
Concurrence	Kennedy, joined by O'Connor
Dissent	Breyer, joined by Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. XI, XIV