When Michael Foreman scanned the list of petitions that the Supreme Court had granted on June 27, he said he “blinked a couple of times at first.”
That’s because he saw the name Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals on it. In that case, the Civil Rights Appellate Clinic of Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law — which Foreman directs — asked the high court for a writ of certiorari to decide on the constitutionality of Congress’ abrogation of states’ 11th Amendment immunity in passing the Family and Medical Leave Act.
