Legal Opinion
Clifton Richardson v. Southern University Sheila R. Evans Ericka Collins
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 4, 1997No. 96-30732PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 two students. 1 Construing Richardson’s suit as one against Southern’s Board of Supervisors, the district court granted Southern’s…
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