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http://www.federalpracticemanual.org/chapter8/section2

Updated 2013 by Cassandra Capobianco, 2016 by Jeffrey S. Gutman
Besides authorizing official capacity suits against state and local officials for structural injunctive relief, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 authorizes claims against those officials in their individual capacity for compensatory and punitive damages. Although, as discussed above, the Eleventh Amendment limits official capacity claims against state officials to prospective injunctive relief, it does not affect damage claims against those officials in their individual capacity.1 In this section, we discuss when absolute and qualified immunity limits individual capacity suits against public officials.


http://www.federalpracticemanual.org/chapter8/section2