Court Opinion

ID: 9462320
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:38:08.538467+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:32.364533
License: Public Domain

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge
(concurring):
The majority opinion does not decide whether, as the dissent urges, there can be a cause of action based directly on the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment. Even assuming that the dissent is correct on this issue, I nevertheless agree with the last paragraph of the majority opinion that under the Vermont doctrine of sovereign immunity, the Braults cannot recover more than they have already recovered in the state courts. Since the complaint does not attack the constitutionality of applying that doctrine, it does not state a cause of action for violation of fourteenth amendment rights.
I therefore concur in the result reached by the majority.