Legal Opinion
Coakley v. Welch
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 9, 1989No. 88-2905PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ERVIN, Chief Judge:
The issue in this appeal is whether the district court correctly refused to dismiss several officials of the South Carolina State Ports Authority (“SPA”) from a suit brought by Samuel Coakley, a terminated SPA employee. The court concluded that the officials did not enjoy eleventh amendment immunity from an action for injunc-tive relief. The court also refused to conclude that the officials had no part in the decision to terminate Coakley. We affirm.
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The SPA terminated Coakley, a cargo supervisor, in December, 1986, after three truckers claimed he had forced them to pay…
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