Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs

Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 15, 2003 Decided May 27, 2003
Full case name	Nevada Department of Human Resources, et al. v. William Hibbs, et al.
Citations	538 U.S. 721 (more) 123 S. Ct. 1972; 155 L. Ed. 2d 953; 2003 U.S. LEXIS 4272; 71 USLW 4375; 84 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) P 41,391; 148 Lab. Cas. (CCH) P 34,704; 8 Wage & Hour Cas.2d (BNA) 1221; 26 NDLR P 35; 03 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 4388; 2003 Daily Journal D.A.R. 5569; 16 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 291
Case history
Prior	273 F.3d 844 (9th Cir. 2001), cert. granted, 536 U.S. 938 (2002).
Holding
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 validly abrogated state sovereign immunity.
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, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
Concurrence	Souter, joined by Ginsburg, Breyer
Concurrence	Stevens (in judgment)
Dissent	Scalia
Dissent	Kennedy, joined by Scalia, Thomas
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. XI, XIV; Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601–2654.

Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, 538 U.S. 721 (2003), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 was "narrowly targeted" at "sex-based overgeneralization" and was thus a "valid exercise of [congressional] power under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment."^[1]