University can’t invoke state immunity to avoid venue transfer: Fed Circuit

06-09-2019

Sarah Morgan

University can’t invoke state immunity to avoid venue transfer: Fed Circuit

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State sovereignty principles don’t give the Board of Regents of the University of Texas (UT) the right to bring a lawsuit in an improper venue, according to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.


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