Unified School District No. 480 v. Lila Epperson and Oleta A. Peters, Lila Epperson and Oleta A. Peters v. J. L. Smalling

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• holding that Kansas school district is local, and not state, entity
• holding that local Kansas school district “and its school board members acting in their official capacity, are not the alter ego of the state, but are more like a municipality, for example, and hence do not enjoy Eleventh Amendment immunity”
• Kansas school district is local because judgment would be paid \from monies raised by special levy within the school district itself\
• Kansas school district is local because judgment would be paid “from monies raised by special levy within the school district itself”
• “[A] suit in a federal court against the members of a state board or agency acting in their official capacities is a suit against the board or agency itself[.]”
• local board subject to \general supervision\ of state board

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