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inlawrev-2825	Pearson Purvis, Cynthia	The Eleventh Amendment Controversy Continues: The Availability and Scope of Relief Against State Entities Under the Education of the Handicapped Act	1989	30	.pdf	application/pdf	13630	776	62	The Supreme Court in a five to four decision, reversed the Ninth Circuit.^^ The Supreme Court first addressed the issue of whether California had waived its eleventh amendment immunity to suit in federal court.^^ The Court here reaffirmed its position that a State's general waiver of sovereign immunity in its constitution subjects it to suit in state court, but is not enough to waive the immunity guaranteed by the eleventh amendment.^^ It quoted at length from the earlier Supreme Court decision in Ex parte Virginia,^ a case in which a state judge had been indicted under a federal statute prohibiting the exclusion, on the basis of race, of a citizen from service as a juror in state court.	cache/inlawrev-2825.pdf	txt/inlawrev-2825.txt