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LOUISIANA AND EXPARTE YOUNG  \nSina Kian  \n© 2009 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, from the Stanford Law Review at 61 STAN. L. REV. 1233 (2009) . For information visit [http://lawreview.stanford.edu](http://lawreview.stanford.edu).  \nNOTES  \nPLEADING SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY: THE DOCTRINAL UNDERPINNINGS OF HANS V.  \nLOUISIANA AND EXPARTE YOUNG  \nSina Kian *  \nINTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................1233  \nI. SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY: THE POLITICAL NARRATIVES OF HANS V. LOUISIANA...1235  \nA. Sovereign Immunity: A Crash Course.......................................................1239  \nB. Torts Versus Contracts: A Misstep............................................................1241  \nII. THE COMMON LAW PLEADING SYSTEM ..........................................................1245  \nA. Common Law Framework: A Case Study .................................................1247  \nB. Madrazo Revisited .....................................................................................1252  \nC. Marshall Court: Continued.......................................................................1255  \nD. The Pattern Continues ..............................................................................1260  \nE. The Bondholder Cases...............................................................................1262  \nF. Federal Sovereign Immunity: The Same Thing..........................................1269  \nG. Hans v. Louisiana: A No-brainer ..............................................................1269  \nH. Ex Parte Young .........................................................................................1272  \nIII. IMPLICATIONS (BRIEF) ...................................................................................1275  \nCONCLUSION........................................................................................................1279  \nINTRODUCTION  \nThe Eleventh Amendment states plainly: “The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.”1 Despite decades of vociferous  \n* B.A. 2007, University of Virginia; J.D. candidate 2010, Stanford Law School. I would like to thank Lawrence Lessig and Larry Marshall for their invaluable feedback and for always challenging me. I also owe thanks to Brooke Coleman and Anthony Dick for reading and commenting on earlier drafts.  \n1. U. S. CONST. amend. XI.  \n1234 STANFORD LAW REVIEW [Vol. 61:1233  \ndebate,2 this seemingly docile text has eluded even the most valiant efforts to produce scholarly consensus.3  \nHans v. Louisiana4 and Ex parte Young5 are two of the most important pillars bracing sovereign immunity law.6 They are also the two most misunderstood. Hans is widely accepted as standing for a simple proposition: the Eleventh Amendment precludes citizens from bringing suits against their own states. Practically every discussion of Hans implicitly yet erroneously assumes that the decision represented some sort of departure from prior case law. Moreover, scholars and judges currently understand Hans as a decision that, in interpreting the Eleventh Amendment, either obfuscated its text or illuminated its soul. Hans does neither or, at least, it meant to do neither. Hans was not an atextual exegesis of the Eleventh Amendment; it was not even a reading of the Eleventh Amendment. More importantly, and contrary to conventional wisdom, Hans was consistent with every sovereign immunity case that preceded it. Hans was, in fact, a mundane application of a remarkably consistent set of common law doctrines.  \nCurrent accounts of Ex parte Young uniformly overlook the indispensable role played by","cbCaimXYjbpLxaLU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimXYjbpLxaLU","pdf",645983,49,"English","# INTRODUCTION\n# SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY: THE POLITICAL NARRATIVES OF HANS V. LOUISIANA\n## Sovereign Immunity: A Crash Course\n## Torts Versus Contracts: A Misstep\n# THE COMMON LAW PLEADING SYSTEM\n## Common Law Framework: A Case Study\n## Madrazo Revisited\n## Marshall Court: Continued\n## The Pattern Continues\n## The Bondholder Cases\n## Federal Sovereign Immunity: The Same Thing\n## Hans v. Louisiana: A No-brainer\n## Ex Parte Young\n# IMPLICATIONS (BRIEF)\n# CONCLUSION","[{\"question\":\"What does the Note argue about Hans v. 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