Columbian Financial Corp. v. Stork

ORDER AND JUDGMENT *

Carolyn B. McHugh, Circuit Judge

The district court dismissed Columbian Financial Corporation’s first amended complaint for lack of jurisdiction, holding that Columbian’s . federal-court claims against state officials were precluded by sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment. In reaching this determination, the district court rejected Colum-bian’s contention that it had jurisdiction over Columbian’s complaint pursuant to the exception to sovereign immunity enunciated in Ex parte Young, 209 U.S. 123, 28 S.Ct. 441, 52 L.Ed. 714 (1908). Exercising jurisdiction under 28…