John Burk v. Linda L. Beene, Doctor, in Her Individual and Official Capacity as Director of the Arkansas State Board of Private Career Education

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• holding that Arkansas has not waived its Eleventh Amendment immunity
• stating that a defendant’s good faith or bad faith is irrelevant to the qualified-immunity inquiry
• suggesting that when the violation of the law is “unknown and unknowable” in the defendant official’s circumstances, the official may enjoy qualified immunity despite a violation of an otherwise clearly established law
• Arkansas has not waived its sovereign immunity, so sovereign immunity barred official-capacity claims for damages against defendant state official
• § 1983 suit; holding officer who was aware affidavit was untruthful “should have known [it] would violate the accused’s constitutional rights”
• the court applied six factor test to determine whether a bi-state agency is more like an arm of the compacting states or more like a local governmental entity

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