Floyd County Fiscal Court’s Governmental Immunity. The plaintiff cites Eleventh Amendment cases to argue that the county waived its sovereign immunity when it removed the ease to federal court. See R. 7 at 9 (citing Lapides v. Bd. of Regents of Univ. Sys. of Georgia, 535 U.S. 613, 620, 122 S.Ct. 1640, 152 L.Ed.2d 806 (2002)). But the cases he cites concern whether a state may be sued in federal court, not whether a county waives governmental immunity when it removes to federal court. The stated purpose of the Eleventh Amendment was to protect states from suit in federal court, curtailing federal jurisdiction. See Hans v. Louisiana, 134 U.S. 1, at 9-14, 10 S.Ct. 504, 33 L.Ed. 842 (1890) (discussing the origin of the Eleventh Amendment); see also Lapides, 535 U.S. at 620, 122 S.Ct. 1640 (<HOLDING>). The Eleventh Amendment, which generally bars
holding that state defendant waived eleventh amendment immunity to a federal claim by removing to federal court holding that state did not waive eleventh amendment immunity by removing case to federal court holding that eleventh amendment bars federal suits against state courts holding that states removal to federal court voluntarily invoked the federal courts jurisdiction waiving eleventh amendment immunity holding the language of  5518e insufficient as a waiver of eleventh amendment immunity to federal claims in federal court