Rafael Santiago v. New York State Department of Correctional Services and Dr. Melvin J. Steinhart, New York State Department Correctional Services

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 1991-09-10

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WALKER, Circuit Judge: This case presents the novel issue of whether an action for damages based on a state’s past deprivations of Fourteenth Amendment guarantees may be brought directly against a state under Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, despite the traditional bar of Eleventh Amendment state immunity. Although a statutory civil rights damage action against a state alleg…

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