Richard Berndt v. State of Tennessee and Lakeshore Mental Health Institute

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• providing that “[w]e believe that Rule 15(c) does not require that the new defendants received actual notice…. It is enough that the new defendants received constructive notice of the suit”
• stating that Tennessee has not waived its Eleventh Amendment immunity from § 1983 suits
• stating that Tennessee has not waived its Eleventh Amendment immunity from § 1983 suits
• stating that Tennessee has not waived its Eleventh Amendment immunity from § 1983 suits
• allowing the plaintiff to substitute state officials for the state and a state agency in a Sec. 1983 case
• noting that Tennessee has not waived immunity to suits under § 1983

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).