RICHARDSON v. SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY

No. 96-30732 Summary Calendar.

118 F.3d 450 (1997)

Clifton RICHARDSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY; Sheila R. Evans; Ericka Collins, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 4, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifton Richardson, New Orleans, LA, pro se.

Suzanne E. Quinlan, LA Dept. of Justice Litigation, Baton Rouge, LA, David Glen Sanders, Assistant Attorney General, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before DAVIS, EMILIO M. GARZA and STEWART, Circuit Judges.


STEWART, Circuit Judge:

This case presents the question of whether Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Southern) and its Board of Supervisors are entitled to sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution. Clifton Richardson, Sr., sued Southern and two students for alleged federal civil rights violations and state-law defamation and false imprisonment. Richardson eventually dropped his claims against the...

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