United States Seventh Circuit

The Eleventh Amendment bars a suit for damages that is nominally against state employees in their individual capacities but that demonstrably has the identical effect as a suit against the state.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/15/2001
• Published 06/15/2001

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, MANION, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Lester A. Pines,Tamara B. Packard (argued), Cullen, Weston, Pines & Bach, Madison, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., James E. Doyle, Richard Briles Moriarty (argued), Office of the Atty. Gen., Wisconsin Dept. of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellants.