Evans v. Celeste

OPINION AND ORDER

GRAHAM, District Judge.

This case has afforded the Court an opportunity to explore the morass of issues which Eleventh Amendment immunity and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims can engender in an action filed against a state entity and state officials. In order to clarify the current posture of this case, the Court will summarize what has heretofore transpired.

Plaintiff filed this action on September 28, 1987 against his employer, the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services (“OBES”), and various officials of the State of Ohio, both individually and in their official capacities. These other,…