Opinion ID: 1462228
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: analysis

Text: ACCS argues for immunity on the ground that the DA acted in his state capacity in administering the program and that it, therefore, is an arm of the state entitled to immunity. As the DA is no longer in this suit, we are reluctant to characterize his role or determine whether he would have been entitled to sovereign immunity had he remained in this case. As it turns out, we need not address that question. [7] Affirming the district court on a different ground, we hold that even if the DA acted in a state capacity in administering the program, ACCS would not be entitled to state sovereign immunity. As we discuss below, the analysis provided in DMJM, 355 F.3d at 1146-48, demonstrates why private entities' claims of state sovereign immunity must fail. To the extent that DMJM appeared to leave any analytic distance, as ACCS claims, between ACCS's case and that of the private contractor denied immunity in DMJM, we close that gap today. Extending state sovereign immunity to private entities is, as we now make clear, not supported by our law, by relevant Supreme Court cases, or by the cases of the other circuits to have considered similar questions.