Case Name: Marlon DeWitt WATSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. State of MISSOURI, Office of Attorney General; Missouri Department of Social Services, Director of Family Support Division; Christine Brown, Missouri Department of Social Services, Family Support Division; Amber L. Daugherty, Missouri Department of Social Services, Division of Legal Services; Latisha Nichole Knighten; Authorized Representative of the Director, Missouri Department of Social Services, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-08-25
Citations: 668 F. App'x 840
Docket Number: No. 16-3095
Parties: Marlon DeWitt WATSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. State of MISSOURI, Office of Attorney General; Missouri Department of Social Services, Director of Family Support Division; Christine Brown, Missouri Department of Social Services, Family Support Division; Amber L. Daugherty, Missouri Department of Social Services, Division of Legal Ser vices; Latisha Nichole Knighten; Authorized Representative of the Director, Missouri Department of Social Services, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before BRISCOE, GORSUCH, and McHUGH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 668
Pages: 840–841

Head Matter:
Marlon DeWitt WATSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. State of MISSOURI, Office of Attorney General; Missouri Department of Social Services, Director of Family Support Division; Christine Brown, Missouri Department of Social Services, Family Support Division; Amber L. Daugherty, Missouri Department of Social Services, Division of Legal Ser vices; Latisha Nichole Knighten; Authorized Representative of the Director, Missouri Department of Social Services, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 16-3095
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
FILED August 25, 2016
Marlon DeWitt Watson, Pro Se.
P. Benjamin Cox, Kansas City, MO, Ronald R. Holliger, Jeremiah J. Morgan, Sr., Jefferson City, MO, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Missouri, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before BRISCOE, GORSUCH, and McHUGH, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
ORDER AND JUDGMENT
Neil M. Gorsuch, Circuit Judge
Before the district court Marlon Watson claimed that the defendants violated his constitutional and state law rights by ordering him to provide child support and health insurance. The district court dismissed the case, thoroughly explaining in an eleven page order that Mr. Watson's claims, apparently based on 42 U.S.C. § 1983, could not be brought against the State of Missouri, its agencies, and the other defendants because Eleventh Amendment and Younger abstention doctrine barred the way. Mr. Watson now asks us to overturn the district court's decision. But even affording his pleadings a solicitous construction, we can discern no error in the district court's judgment and nothing we might add to its careful analysis.
Affirmed.
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)(2); 10th Cir. R. 34.1(G). Thé case is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument. This order and judgment is not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel. It may be cited, however, for its persuasive value consistent with Fed. R. App. P. 32.1 and 10th Cir. R. 32.1.