Legal Opinion
Scheuer v. Rhodes
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 17, 1974No. 72-914PublishedCited by 13,499 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Buegee
We granted certiorari 1 in these cases to resolve whether the. District Court correctly dismissed civil damage actions, brought under 42 U. S. C. § 1983, on the ground that these actions were, as a matter of law, against the State of Ohio, and, hence barred by the Eleventh Amendment to -the Constitution and, alternatively, that the actions were against state officials who were immune from liability for the acts alleged in the complaints. These cases arise out of the same period of alleged civil disorder on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio during May 1970 which was before us, in…
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