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TURPIN v. KOROPCHAK

No. 08-2495.

567 F.3d 880 (2009)

Christi TURPIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John KOROPCHAK, David L. Wilson, and Nancy Mundschenk, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 5, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darrell Dunham (argued), Carbondale, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Linzey D. Jones, Jr. and Uma Chandrasekaran (argued), Pugh, Jones, Johnson & Quandt, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before KANNE and EVANS, Circuit Judges, and DOW, District Judge.

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

The issue in this case is jurisdiction. Christi Turpin, a former graduate student of Southern Illinois University (SIU), sued two deans and a professor in federal court after they failed to acknowledge that she earned her doctorate. Despite the fact that she sued the defendants in their individual capacities, the district court held that SIU, and therefore the State of Illinois, was the real party in interest. The upshot? The case was dismissed...

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