Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer
Case Date: 11/04/1976
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Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer, 427 U.S. 445 (1976),[1] was a United States Supreme Court decision that determined that the U.S. Congress has the power to abrogate the Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity of the states, if this is done pursuant to its Fourteenth Amendment power to enforce upon the states the guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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