Heike v. Guevara

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the doctrine of sovereign immunity barred claims against individual defendants sued in their official capacities
• stating that “sovereign immunity bars suits in federal court against state officials acting in their official capacity for violations of state law, regardless of the relief sought.”
• “It has been suggested that in Michigan, ‘the common-law list of actions that constituted defamation per se has been replaced by the significantly more narrow statutory provisions.’” (quoting 2 Mich. Law & Practice, Torts, § 3.68 (2d ed. 2004)
• questioning whether statements concerning one’s profession are actionable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).