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Parties Involved:
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Amicus Curiae
Chet A. Hurd
Appellee
Pittsburg State University
Appellant
William Mark Simmons
Not Party

Document Text:

PUBLISH FILED 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

United States Court of Appeals 

Tenth Cireuit 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

CHET A. HURD, ) 

) 

Plaintiff-Appellee, ) 

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v. ) 

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PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, ) 

) 

Defendant-Appellant, ) 

) 

~d ) 

) 

WILLIAM MARK sIMMONS I ) 

) 

Defendant, ) 

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U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY ) 

COMMISSION, ) 

) 

Amicus Curiae. ) 

JUL 1 2 1994 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 93-3082 

APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS 

(D.C. No. 92-CV-2253) 

Carl A. Gallagher, Assistant Attorney General (Robert T. Stephan, 

Attorney General, with him on the briefs), Topeka, Kansas, for 

Defendant-Appellant. 

Mark A. Buchanan, The Popham Law Firm, P.C., Kansas City, 

Missouri, for Plaintiff-Appellee. 

Paul D. Ramshaw, Attorney (Donald R. Livingston, General Counsel; 

Gwendolyn Young Reams, Associate General Counsel; and Vincent J. 

Blackwood, Assistant General Counsel, with him on the brief), U.S. 

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., Amicus 

Curiae. 

Appellate Case: 93-3082 Document: 01019283633 Date Filed: 07/12/1994 Page: 1 
Before LOGAN and McKAY, Circuit Judges, and SAM,* District Judge. 

McKAY, Circuit Judge. 

The issue in this case is whether lawsuits under the Age Discrimination Employment Act ( 11 ADEA11 ) brought by private litigants 

against the state in federal court are barred by Eleventh Amendment immunity. In a thorough and well-reasoned opinion published 

at 821 F. Supp. 1410 (D. Kan. 1993), the district court held that 

Congress intended to abrogate states' Eleventh Amendment immunity 

when it passed the ADEA. The only additions we can make to the 

district court's opinion are the citations for two more cases that 

support its holding. Specifically, in addition to the cases cited 

by the district court, both the Seventh Circuit, see Heiar v. 

Crawford County, Wis., 746 F.2d 1190 (1984), cert. denied, 472 

U.S. 1027 (1985), and the First Circuit, see Ramirez v. Puerto 

Rico Fire Serv., 715 F.2d 694 (1st Cir. 1983), have held that 

Congress intended to abrogate states' Eleventh Amendment immunity 

when it passed the ADEA. Accordingly, we affirm for substantially 

the same reasons given by the district court. 

AFFIRMED. 

* Honorable David Sam, United States District Judge for the 

District of Utah, sitting by designation. 

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