Central Virginia Community College v. Katz

Central Virginia Community College v. Katz
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 31, 2005 Decided January 23, 2006
Full case name	Central Virginia Community College, et al. v. Katz, Liquidating Supervisor for Wallace's Bookstores, Inc.
Docket no.	04-885
Citations	546 U.S. 356 (more) 126 S. Ct. 990; 163 L. Ed. 2d 945
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	106 F. App'x 341 (6th Cir. 2004); cert. granted, 544 U.S. 960 (2005).
Holding
A bankruptcy trustee's proceeding to set aside the debtor's preferential transfers to state agencies is not barred by sovereign immunity.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts 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	Stevens, joined by O'Connor, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy
Laws applied
U.S. Const. Art. I § 8

Central Virginia Community College v. Katz, 546 U.S. 356 (2006), is a United States Supreme Court case holding that the Bankruptcy Clause of the Constitution abrogates state sovereign immunity. It is significant as one of only three cases allowing Congress to use an Article I power to authorize individuals to sue states, the others being PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey and Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety.