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Lapides v. Board of Regents of University System of Georgia 535 U.S. 613 (2002) is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which ruled that a state voluntarily waives at least part of its Eleventh Amendment immunity when it invokes a federal court’s removal jurisdiction. There has subsequently been a circuit split in federal courts regarding whether a state waives immunity from liability or only a federal form.Justice Stephen Breyer delivered the Opinion of the Court.