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PRUEITT v. BOONE COUNTY, IOWA

Civ. No. 84-116-A.

599 F.Supp. 278 (1984)

Ann PRUEITT, Plaintiff, v. BOONE COUNTY, IOWA, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Iowa, C.D.

December 12, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jaki Samuelson, Whitfield, Musgrave, Selvy, Kelly & Eddy, Bernard Spaeth, Jr., Des Moines, Iowa, for plaintiff.

J.M. Sullivan, Asst. City Atty. for City of Des Moines, Lee H. Gaudineer, Jon Swanson, Des Moines, Iowa, for defendants Boone County and John Ellison.

Matthew W. Williams, Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, Iowa, for defendants Ellis, Ellison and Franklin.

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

STUART, Chief Judge.

This case presents the question whether a state that has waived its sovereign immunity from suit for breach of contract has thereby waived its Eleventh Amendment immunity from suit in federal court.

Plaintiff was an employee of the Woodward State Hospital-School, (hereinafter, Woodward) located in Boone County, Iowa. She lived with two other Woodward employees in...

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