which held that the Eleventh Amendment barred federal actions against unconsenting states when brought by foreign nations, both involved actions to enforce obligations on government bonds. In both cases the Court held that the suits were barred by sovereign immunity, but in both cases the defendant entity was the state itself, which had issued bonds under its own name. Conversely, in Mount Healthy, the Supreme Court unanimously held that the defendant school board was not entitled to sovereign immunity because it was more akin to a city or county, which does not enjoy Eleventh Amendment protection, than it was to an arm of the state. See 429 U.S. at 279-81, 97 S.Ct. at 572-73; see also Moor v. County of Alameda, 411 U.S. 693, 717-21, 93 S.Ct. 1785, 1799-1801, 36 L.Ed.2d 596 (1973) (<HOLDING>); Lincoln County v. Luning, 133 U.S. 529, 530,
holding that the political subdivisions of a state are subject to federal diversity jurisdiction holding that in diversity cases federal courts are to apply state substantive law and federal procedural law holding that in a diversity action a federal court must apply the law of the forum state recognizing value of maintaining integrity of political subdivisions holding that a federal court in diversity jurisdiction must apply state substantive law