Case Name: Michele Cherie Chapman MOORE, Appellant, v. Joyce PLOCK; State of Nebraska; York Penitentiary for Women; 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
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-06-02
Citations: 377 F. App'x 563
Docket Number: No. 10-1250
Parties: Michele Cherie Chapman MOORE, Appellant, v. Joyce PLOCK; State of Nebraska; York Penitentiary for Women; 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.
Judges: Before WOLLMAN, COLLOTON, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 377
Pages: 563–563

Head Matter:
Michele Cherie Chapman MOORE, Appellant, v. Joyce PLOCK; State of Nebraska; York Penitentiary for Women; 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.
No. 10-1250.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: May 27, 2010.
Filed: June 2, 2010.
Michele Cherie Chapman Moore, Omaha, NE, pro se.
Before WOLLMAN, COLLOTON, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Former Nebraska inmate Michele Moore appeals the district court's preser-vice dismissal without prejudice of her 42 U.S.C. § 1988 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, 109 S.Ct. 2304, 105 L.Ed.2d 45 (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. Kemp-ker, 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, 105 S.Ct. 3099, 87 L.Ed.2d 114 (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.
. The Honorable Joseph F. Bataillon, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.