Legal Opinion
Whitfield v. City of Ridgeland
District Court, S.D. Mississippi
Decided May 11, 2012No. Civil Action No. 3:11CV744TSL-LRAPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
TOM S. LEE, District Judge.
There are pending before the court three interrelated motions. Initially, defendants State of Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Public Safety and Mississippi Highway Patrol (the State defendants) moved to dismiss pursuant to Rules 12(b)(1) and (6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure on Eleventh Amendment immunity giounds. In response, plaintiff Charles Dwight Whitfield filed a motion to amend his complaint to drop the State of Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Public Safety and Mississippi Highway Patrol as defendants, and…
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