KASHANI v. PURDUE UNIVERSITY

No. 85-2306.

813 F.2d 843 (1987)

Hamid R. KASHANI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PURDUE UNIVERSITY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 10, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Marsh, Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, Ind., for plaintiff-appellant.

John C. Duffey, Stuart & Branigin, LaFayette, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, WOOD, Circuit Judge, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.


ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Hamid R. Kashani sued Purdue University and various of its officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that he was terminated from a doctoral program at Purdue University on the basis of national origin. The trial court held his claims both for damages and for reinstatement barred by the Eleventh Amendment. In this appeal we uphold the conclusion that Purdue University shares in the sovereign immunity of the State of Indiana under...

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