Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents

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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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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
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
country United States
court Supreme Court of the United States
decisionDate 2000-01-11
defendant Board of Regents of the State of Florida
Florida Board of Regents
dissentingJustices David H. Souter
John Paul Stevens
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen G. Breyer
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
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
Eleventh Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment Section 5 enforcement power
state sovereign immunity
majorityJustices Anthony M. Kennedy
Antonin Scalia
Clarence Thomas
Sandra Day O’Connor
William H. Rehnquist
majorityOpinionBy Sandra Day O’Connor
plaintiff J. Daniel Kimel Jr.
relatedCase Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett
City of Boerne v. Flores
Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida
relatedDoctrine congruence and proportionality test
relatedStatute Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
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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