Supreme Court of the United States
Allen v. Cooper
This writing
- Type
- Lead opinion
- Author
- Elena Kagan
- Filed
- March 23, 2020
- Case
- Allen v. Cooper
- Case status
- Decided
- Joined by
- Samuel A. Alito Jr.Neil M. GorsuchBrett M. KavanaughJohn Glover Roberts Jr.Sonia SotomayorClarence Thomas
Opening text
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Justice KAGAN delivered the opinion of the Court. *998 In two basically identical statutes passed in the early 1990s, Congress sought to strip the States of their sovereign immunity from patent and copyright infringement suits. Not long after, this Court held in…
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Other writings in this case
| Type | Author | Filed |
|---|---|---|
| Concurrence | Stephen Gerald Breyer | March 23, 2020 |
| Concurrence in part | Clarence Thomas | March 23, 2020 |