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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

GLEN PARTRIDGE, ) 

) 

Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

) 

FILED 

United States Court of Appeals 

Tenrh Circuit 

MAR .. 7 1990 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

v. ) 

) 

BOARD OF EDUCATION, SEVIER COUNTY ) 

SCHOOL DISTRICT, ) 

) 

No. 89-4129 

(D.C. No. 88-C-1055W) 

(D. Utah) 

Defendant-Appellee. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before MCKAY, SEYMOUR, and EBEL, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The case is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument. 

This action by a school teacher against the Utah Board of 

Education and a local county school district was dismissed as controlled by our decision in Harris v. Tooele County School Dist., 

471 F.2d 218 (10th Cir. 1973). In that case, this court over dissent held that Utah public schools were agencies of the state for 

* This order and judgment has no precedential valued and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel, 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

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purposes of eleventh amendment immunity. See id. at 220. Nothing 

in the briefs or arguments suggests a substantial change in the 

fundamental relationship between the schools and the state since 

Harris was decided. Because a panel of this court is bound by the 

prior decision, these arguments may be addressed only to the en 

bane court. The decision is therefore AFFIRMED because it is controlled by Harris. 

AFFIRMED. The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

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Entered for the Court 

Monroe G. McKay 

Circuit Judge 

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