Opinion ID: 3064734
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Heading: Eleventh Amendment and Qualified Immunity

Text: [24] The district court correctly determined that school districts in California are immune from § 1983 claims by virtue of Eleventh Amendment immunity. Belanger v. Madera Unified Sch. Dist., 963 F.2d 248, 254 (9th Cir. 1992). Plaintiffs do not contest this assertion. The district court also correctly found that the same is true of the state civil rights claims brought in federal court. Stanley v. Trustees of California State Univ., 433 F.3d 1129, 1134 (9th Cir. 2006) (explaining that the Unruh Act does not consent to federal court actions). Eleventh Amendment immunity therefore provides an independent legal basis upon which to grant summary judgment in favor of the school district as to Plaintiffs’ federal and state civil rights claims. CORALES v. BENNETT 6485 We need not reach the issue of whether qualified immunity extends to Bennett and Kinley, as Plaintiffs have raised no triable issue of fact as to whether either Bennett or Kinley violated the students’ constitutional rights. See Saucier v. Katz, 533 U.S. 194, 201 (2001). AFFIRMED.