U.S. 274, 97 S.Ct. 568, 50 L.Ed.2d 471 (1977); Stewart v. Baldwin County Bd. of Educ., at 1510; Travelers Indemnity Corp. v. School Bd. of Dade County, 666 F.2d 505 (11th Cir.1982). That it may be immune under state sovereign immunity principles does not mean that it is immune under eleventh amendment jurisprudence. In fact, the Authority, here, may be entitled to immunity from suit under Georgia law. Self v. City of Atlanta, 259 Ga. 78, 377 S.E.2d 674 (1989). However, a defendant may not “conflate sovereign immunity with regard to a state created tort with Eleventh Amendment immunity for a federal cause of action.” Stewart v. Baldwin County Bd. of Educ., 908 F.2d at 1510 n. 6; see Mt. Healthy City School Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274, 97 S.Ct. 568, 50 L.Ed.2d 471 (1977) (<HOLDING>); see also Howlett By and Through Howlett v.
holding that the alien tort statute itself is not a waiver of sovereign immunity holding that local school boards were not entitled to eleventh amendment immunity even though entitled to sovereign immunity in the same degree as the state itself from tort suits holding that the new mexico school district and their governing boards are not arms of the state entitled to eleventh amendment immunity holding that defendants are not entitled to qualified immunity holding that pennsylvanias judicial districts are entitled to immunity from suit under the eleventh amendment