Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety

Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 29, 2022 Decided June 29, 2022
Full case name	Le Roy Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety
Docket no.	20-603
Citations	597 U.S. 580 (more)
Argument	Oral argument
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan · Neil Gorsuch Brett Kavanaugh · Amy Coney Barrett
Case opinions
Majority	Breyer, joined by Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan, Kavanaugh
Concurrence	Kagan
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett
Laws applied
Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act of 1994

Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety, 597 U.S. 580 (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) and state sovereign immunity. In a 5–4 decision issued in June 2022, the Court ruled that state sovereign immunity does not prevent states from being sued under federal law related to the nation's defense.