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Parties Involved:
Dave Heineman
Appellee
Robert Houston
Appellee
Ryan Mahr
Appellee
Michele Cherie Chapman Moore
Appellant
Jamey Odell
Appellee
Joyce Plock
Appellee
State of Nebraska
Appellee
York Penitentary for Women
Appellee

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 10-1250

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Michele Cherie Chapman Moore, *

*

Appellant, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the

* District of Nebraska.

Joyce Plock; State of Nebraska; *

York Penitentary for Women; * [UNPUBLISHED]

Dave Heineman, Governor of *

Nebraska; Robert Houston, *

Director of Dept. of Correctional *

Services; Ryan Mahr, Warden of *

Community Corrections Center of *

Omaha; Jamey Odell, R.N. Acting *

ADON of Attorney General’s Office *

OCC, *

*

Appellees. *

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Submitted: May 27, 2010

Filed: June 2, 2010

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Before WOLLMAN, COLLOTON, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

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The Honorable Joseph F. Bataillon, Chief Judge, United States District Court

for the District of Nebraska.

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Former Nebraska inmate Michele Moore appeals the district court’s1

 preservice

dismissal without prejudice of her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint. After careful de novo

review, see Moore v. Sims, 200 F.3d 1170, 1171 (8th Cir. 2000) (per curiam), we

agree with the district court that Moore’s claims were barred by the Eleventh

Amendment, see Will v. Mich. Dep’t of State Police, 491 U.S. 58, 71 (1989) (because

Eleventh Amendment immunizes states from suit, neither state nor its officials acting

in their official capacity are “persons” under § 1983); Monroe v. Ark. State Univ., 495

F.3d 591, 594 (8th Cir. 2007) (Eleventh Amendment bars suit against state agency for

any kind of relief); Larson v. Kempker, 414 F.3d 936, 939 n.3 (8th Cir. 2005)

(Eleventh Amendment bars § 1983 lawsuit against state agency even if entity is

moving force behind deprivation of federal right (citing Kentucky v. Graham, 473

U.S. 159, 169 (1985))); Johnson v. Outboard Marine Corp., 172 F.3d 531, 535 (8th

Cir. 1999) (unless pleading expressly and unambiguously states public official is sued

in individual capacity, it will be assumed that defendant is sued only in official

capacity).

Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.

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