Meyers v. State of Texas, No. 02-50452 (5th Cir. June 29, 2006)(invocation of state sovereign immunity in state court)(Texas may assert its state sovereign immunity as defined by its own law as a defense against the plaintiffs’ claims in the federal courts, but it may not use it to defeat federal jurisdiction or as a return ticket back to the state court system. See Lapides v. Bd. of Regents of Georgia , 535 U.S. 613, 122 S.Ct. 1640 (2002)(holding that when a State removes to federal court a private state court suit based on a federal-law claim, it invokes federal jurisdiction and thus waives its unqualified right to object peremptorily to the federal district court's jurisdiction on the ground of state sovereign immunity.)