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Reports on a ruling by the US Supreme Court stating that the University of California as a state agency was not divested of 11th Amendment immunity by the agreement of the federal government to indemnify the agency against the cost of litigation. Background on the case; Reversal of an earlier ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court.

Reports that the United States Supreme Court had agreed to hear a case on whether a state-operated university is immune from being sued in federal court if any damages awarded would not come out of the state treasury.