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181472P.pdf 01/10/2019 Keilee Fant v. City of Ferguson, MO
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-1472
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Gruender and Grasz, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. In action alleging the City of Ferguson
violated plaintiffs' civil rights by detaining them for inability to pay
traffic fines, the City moved to dismiss seeking to assert the sovereign
immunity of the Ferguson Municipal Court, which the City says is an arm of
the state of Missouri. The City filed this interlocutory appeal to
challenge the district court's order denying its motion to dismiss. Held,
the Court lacks jurisdiction to address any potential claim of immunity by
the Municipal Court, which is not a party to this litigation.