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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