[NOT FOR PUBLICATION–NOT TO BE CITED AS PRECEDENT]
United States Court of Appeals
For the First Circuit
No. 00-2010
EUGENE B. BOWLER,
Plaintiff, Appellant,
v.
STATE OF MAINE,
Defendant, Appellee.
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE
[Hon. Gene Carter, U.S. District Judge]
Before
Torruella, Chief Judge,
Campbell and Cyr, Senior Circuit Judges.
Eugene B. Bowler on brief pro se.
Andrew Ketterer, Attorney General, Paul Stern, Deputy
Attorney General, Amy M. Sneirson, Assistant Attorney General,
and William R. Stokes, Assistant Attorney General, on brief for
appellee.
May 21, 2001
Per Curiam. The judgment is affirmed substantially
for the reasons set forth in the district court's opinion.
To clarify one misunderstanding voiced by plaintiff:
although the Eleventh Amendment by its terms refers only to
suits against a State by citizens of another State, the
Supreme Court has "extended the Amendment's applicability to
suits by citizens against their own States." Board of
Trustees of Univ. of Alabama v. Garrett, 121 S. Ct. 955, 962
(2001); accord, e.g., Strahan v. Coxe, 127 F.3d 155, 166 (1st
Cir. 1997).
Affirmed. See Loc. R. 27(c).
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