Legal Opinion
Duke v. Grady Municipal Schools
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 20, 1997No. 96-2135PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
This is an interlocutory appeal, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b), from an order of the district court in New Mexico, dismissing the 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims of plaintiff, Bonnie Duke, against the Grady Public Schools, the Grady School Board, and the individual school board members in their official capacities. 1 The sole issue presented in this appeal is whether local school boards and districts in New Mexico are arms of the state and therefore entitled to Eleventh Amendment immunity, or whether they are political subdivisions or some other form of local…
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3Cited by58 opinions
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