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UNITED MEXICAN STATES v. WOODS

No. 97-15878.

126 F.3d 1220 (1997)

UNITED MEXICAN STATES; Miguel Angel Gonzalez, Legal Advisor of Secretary of Foreign Relations of Mexico; Loui Cabrera, Counsel General of Mexico in the State of Arizona, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Grant WOODS, Attorney General; Terry L. Stewart, Director of the Arizona Department of Corrections; Meg Savage, Warden, Arizona State Prison, Florence, Arizona, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 7, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Frank, Lewis and Roca, Phoenix, Arizona, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jon G. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, Phoenix, Arizona, for defendants-appellees.

Before: D.W. NELSON, LEAVY, and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges.

T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judge:

The United Mexican States and two of its officials appeal the district court's dismissal of their action against Arizona's Attorney General and two officers of the Arizona Department of Corrections. The district court held that it lacked jurisdiction under the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. We agree and affirm the dismissal.

BACKGROUND

Ramon Martinez-Villareal, a citizen of Mexico,...

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