November 24, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up Nevada's challenge to a Ninth Circuit ruling that said states cannot claim immunity from federal claims they voluntarily sent from state to federal court, allowing a wage collective action to proceed against the state department of corrections.
October 16, 2019
States can't claim 11th Amendment immunity to federal claims they've had sent from state to federal court even when the underlying law doesn't apply to them, the Ninth Circuit said Wednesday in a published opinion greenlighting a federal wage collective action against the Nevada Department of Corrections.