Okruhlik v. University of Arkansas Ex Rel. May

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

These three interlocutory appeals present the issue of whether Eleventh Amendment immunity bars Title VII claims against a state. The cases were brought bj two professors and several administrative staff against the University of Arkansas, through its board of trustees and individual state officials, for sex and race discrimination and harassment under Title VII and state law. In each case the district court 1 ruled that the Title VII claims were not haired by the Eleventh Amendment. The state of Arkansas appealed, and the United States intervened in two of the cases. We…