Kenneth Ray Meade v. Grubbs, Badge No. 128, Individually and as a Deputy Sheriff of the County of Oklahoma

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• holding that pro se litigants are entitled to a liberal construction of their pleadings
• holding state attorney general and state health department commissioner absolutely immune from § 1983 claim based on their failure to initiate either a civil or criminal complaint against other state officials
• selecting Oklahoma statute of limitations for “‘injury to the rights of another, not arising on contract and not hereinafter enumerated,’ ” and rejecting statute for assault or battery
• the immunity conferred by the Eleventh Amendment extends to the state and its instrumentalities
• “[Dismissal is usually appropriate only where a lesser sanction would not serve the interest of justice.” (quotation omitted)
• “While an agency of the state may fall under the protective umbrella of the [Eleventh] Amendment, political subdivisions of the state do not.”

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