JONES v. STATE OF LA. THROUGH BD. OF TRUSTEES

No. 84-4811 Summary Calendar.

764 F.2d 1183 (1985)

Frederick D. JONES, and Louis Nabors, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE OF LOUISIANA, Through the BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR STATE COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 12, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Larvadain, Jr., Alexandria, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Bronfin, Heller, Feldman & Steinberg, Robert A. Kutcher, John D. Fricke, Jan Marie Hayden, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before WILLIAMS, JOLLY, and HILL, Circuit Judges.


ROBERT MADDEN HILL, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs' racial discrimination suit was dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction based on the Eleventh Amendment immunity of states and arms of the state. Because injunctive relief is not prohibited by the Eleventh Amendment if a state official is named as defendant and because we find that an individual state official was a party defendant despite some technical pleading deficiencies, we reverse the dismissal of the...

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