United States First Circuit

A state lottery commission qualifies as an "arm of the state" for purposes of the Eleventh Amendment. Employee's constitutional claims against individual officials, arising out of his termination, were not actionable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/20/2002
• Published 08/20/2002

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL and CYR, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Philip N. Beauregard, with whom Michael Franco and Beauregard, Burke & Franco were on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Salvatore M. Giorlandino, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Thomas F. Riley, Attorney General of Massachusetts, and Maria Hickey Jacobson, Assistant Attorney General, were on brief, for appellees.