Dissension among the ranks--the courts are at odds over 11 U.S.C. (Section) 106 and its purported abrogation of sovereign immunity in the bankruptcy code

Veach provides a brief overview of Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity; what is required for arbrogation of sovereign immunity; and how the federal courts obtain jurisdiction through a state's waiver and consent. She addresses whether a bankruptcy action is a "suit in law or equity" governed by the Eleventh Amendment.