College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board — 527 U.S. 666 · Supreme Court of the United States · 1999

interpretation

Concluding, for the foregoing reasons, that the sovereign immunity of the State of Florida was neither validly abrogated by the Trademark Remedy Clarification Act, nor voluntarily waived by the State’s activities in interstate commerce, we hold that the federal courts are without jurisdiction to entertain this suit against an arm of the State of Florida. The judgment of the Third Circuit dismissing the action is affirmed.

College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board — 527 U.S. 666 · Supreme Court of the United States · 1999 (15usc1125: author: unavailable · not independently reviewed)

Concluding, for the foregoing reasons, that the sovereign immunity of the State of Florida was neither validly abrogated by the Trademark Remedy Clarification Act, nor voluntarily waived by the State’s activities in interstate commerce, we hold that the federal courts are without jurisdiction to entertain this suit against an arm of the State of Florida. The judgment of the Third Circuit dismissing the action is affirmed.

Judicial constitutional limit, not a statutory exemption from (a)(2). Do not equate every local government or official with an immune state, or assume statutory coverage alone authorizes the requested remedy. College Savings Bank concerned misrepresentations of the state's own product; do not turn its fact-specific abrogation reasoning into a complete rule for all intellectual-property suits.