Utah School Board Immune From Copyright Claims Under 11th Amendment, Judge Rules

( June 23, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT) -- SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge in Utah found that the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to consider a Mandarin language learning company’s claims that the Utah State Board of Education and certain educators infringed copyrighted educational material because the defendants are immunized by the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; the judge dismissed the complaint without prejudice....