ESTATE OF RITTER v. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

No. 87-1691.

851 F.2d 846 (1988)

ESTATE OF Melvin RITTER, Deceased, by Jonnie Mae RITTER, Personal Representative, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, University of Michigan Hospital, State of Michigan, Board of Regents, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheryl R. Lederman, Thurswell, Chayet & Weiner, Cyril V. Weiner, Lisa Wunder (argued), Southfield, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert G. Kamenec (argued), Richard D. O'Conner, Detroit, Mich., for defendants-appellees.

Before KRUPANSKY and BOGGS, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge.


BAILEY BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a grant of summary judgment for defendant Board of Regents of the University of Michigan and dismissal of plaintiff's case by the district court on the ground that the law upon which plaintiff relied did not create a right to monetary relief for which plaintiff sued. We conclude that, whether or not the disposition by the court on this ground was correct, under the eleventh amendment the federal district court...

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