Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents

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United States Supreme Court case federal court case

Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents is a 2000 U.S. Supreme Court case that held Congress lacked authority under the Fourteenth Amendment to subject nonconsenting states to private suits for money damages under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

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Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents canonical	4

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States Supreme Court case ⓘ federal court case ⓘ
areaOfLaw	constitutional law ⓘ employment discrimination law ⓘ federal courts ⓘ
citation	120 S. Ct. 631 ⓘ 145 L. Ed. 2d 522 ⓘ 528 U.S. 62 ⓘ
constitutionalProvisionInterpreted	Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution NERFINISHED ⓘ Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
court	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
decisionDate	2000-01-11 ⓘ
defendant	Board of Regents of the State of Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ Florida Board of Regents NERFINISHED ⓘ
dissentingJustices	David H. Souter NERFINISHED ⓘ John Paul Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Bader Ginsburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen G. Breyer NERFINISHED ⓘ
docketNumber	98-791 ⓘ
holding	Congress lacked authority under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to subject nonconsenting states to private suits for money damages under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ⓘ Private individuals may not recover money damages from nonconsenting states for violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ⓘ The Age Discrimination in Employment Act is not a valid exercise of Congress’s Section 5 enforcement power as applied to the states NERFINISHED ⓘ
impact	Limited Congress’s ability to subject states to private damages suits under federal anti-discrimination statutes ⓘ
issue	Whether Congress validly abrogated state sovereign immunity in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment ⓘ
jurisdiction	federal question jurisdiction ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
legalSubject	Age Discrimination in Employment Act NERFINISHED ⓘ Eleventh Amendment NERFINISHED ⓘ Fourteenth Amendment Section 5 enforcement power ⓘ state sovereign immunity ⓘ
majorityJustices	Anthony M. Kennedy NERFINISHED ⓘ Antonin Scalia NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarence Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ Sandra Day O’Connor NERFINISHED ⓘ William H. Rehnquist NERFINISHED ⓘ
majorityOpinionBy	Sandra Day O’Connor NERFINISHED ⓘ
plaintiff	J. Daniel Kimel Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedCase	Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett NERFINISHED ⓘ City of Boerne v. Flores NERFINISHED ⓘ Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedDoctrine	congruence and proportionality test ⓘ
relatedStatute	Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 NERFINISHED ⓘ
result	State employers gained immunity from private suits for money damages under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ⓘ
statuteInterpreted	29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq. ⓘ
term	October Term 1999 ⓘ
topic	federalism in the United States ⓘ state liability for employment discrimination ⓘ
vote	5-4 ⓘ

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Alden v. Maine → relatedCase → Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents ⓘ

United States sovereign immunity law → keyCase → Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents ⓘ

Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett → precedentReliedOn → Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents ⓘ

Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs → relatedCase → Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents ⓘ