Barfield v. Blackwood

OPINION

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina directing the State of North Carolina, through its Secretary of Public Safety and Crime Control, to pay a portion of a money judgment rendered in a § 1983 action against a former state employee in his individual capacity. Because we conclude that the § 1983 claimant’s efforts to enforce in federal court any obligation that the State may have to pay this judgment is barred by the Eleventh Amendment, we reverse.

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Richard W. Barfield, a citizen of the State…