Legal Opinion
Harter v. Vernon
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 22, 1996No. 96-1434PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*336Affirmed by published opinion. Judge MOTZ wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER joined. Judge RUSSELL concurred only in the judgment.
OPINION
DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge:
The district court concluded that a sheriff in North Carolina is not a state official for purposes of Eleventh Amendment immunity. Because the state treasury would not pay any judgment against a sheriff and because the state would suffer no indignity to its sovereign integrity if immunity were not accorded to a sheriff, we affirm.
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The sheriff of Rockingham County, North Carolina, C.D. Vernon, hired Wayne Harter as a…
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