Does a federal magistrate-judge err in finding that defendants in both official and individual capacities are immune from civil action in both their official capacity and their individual capacity?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Turner v. Waihee, 992 F.2d 1220 (9th Cir. 1993):

Finally, the magistrate-judge did not err in finding that the defendants below were immune from suit in both their official and individual capacities. See Kentucky v. Graham, 473 U.S. 159, 169 n. 17 (1985) (sovereign immunity under Eleventh Amendment protects state officials from suit in official capacity); Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 815 (1982) (qualified immunity protects officials from suit in individual capacity where they did not act beyond official discretion and did not know that their actions violated the constitutional rights of the plaintiff).

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