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63 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 493 (2006)
The Collision of the Takings and State Sovereign Immunity Doctrines

handle is hein.journals/waslee63 and id is 501 raw text is: The Collision of the Takings and State Sovereign Immunity Doctrines Eric Berger* Table of Contents I. Introduction .................................................................................. 494 II. Fram ing the Problem .................................................................... 501 I. The Doctrinal Collision Course .................................................... 504 A. Takings Doctrine and Tax Refund Cases ............................... 504 1. Takings Cases ................................................................. 504 2. Due Process Tax Refund Cases ....................................... 507 B. State Sovereign Immunity Doctrine ....................................... 509 C. The Unanswered Questions ................................................... 516 IV. The Textual Argument ................................................................. 518 V. The Structural Arguments ............................................................ 524 A. Which Reading Does Less Damage? ..................................... 525 B. The Marbury Principle and the Problem of Constitutional Remedies ........................................................ 528 1. Just Compensation and the Remedial Promise ................ 528 2. Alden and the Symmetry of State Sovereign Immunity ...550 3. The Availability of Alternative Remedies ....................... 555 C. The Fourteenth Amendment, Incorporation, and Autom atic Abrogation ........................................................... 562 VI. The Historical Arguments ............................................................. 570 A. Originalist Views of the Takings Clause and the * Jenner & Block, LLP, Washington, DC. I thank Ginger Anders, Michael Doff, Bill Hohengarten, Howard Master, Renre Paradis, Catherine Struve, and Saul Zipkin for extremely helpful suggestions. Thomas Merrill and Henry Monaghan deserve particular thanks for providing guidance during the early stages of this project. I also thank Marianne McGuire for unparalleled secretarial assistance, and gratefully acknowledge Sarah Waszmer and the editors of the Washington and Lee Law Review for their meticulous editorial assistance. Finally, I thank Anne Duncan, whose support and own scholarship helped inspire this effort. Remaining errors are mine. 493

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