Hoffman v. Connecticut Department of Income Maintenance

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1989-06-23

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Justice Scalia, concurring in the judgment. I concur in the Court’s judgment that “petitioner’s actions in United States Bankruptcy Court under §§ 542(b) and 547(b) of the [Bankruptcy] Code are barred by the Eleventh Amendment.” Ante, at 104. I reach this conclusion, however, not on the plurality’s basis that “Congress did not abrogate Eleventh Amendment immunity” of the States, ibid., but…

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