Legal Opinion
Michael Korgich v. Regents of the New Mexico School of Mines, a Body Corporate
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 18, 1978No. 77-1932PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PICKETT, Circuit Judge.
Michael Korgich, a nonresident student at the New Mexico School of Mines, brought this action in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, seeking damages from personal injuries alleged to have resulted from the negligence of the school’s board of regents in the operation of the school. The district court, on its own motion, held that the action was, in effect, against the State of New Mexico, and that the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States barred federal jurisdiction. An order was entered dismissing the complaint “without…
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