# Hamilton's Bogarts, Inc. v. Michigan

> Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · August 30, 2007 · 501 F.3d 644

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9634175

## Case

- **Full name:** HAMILTON’S BOGARTS, INC.; Kathleen Polzin, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. State of MICHIGAN; Michigan Liquor Control Commission; Jennifer Granholm; Nida Samon, Defendants-Appellees
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- **Decided:** August 30, 2007
- **Citations:** 501 F.3d 644; 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 20726; 2007 WL 2438044
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Batchelder
- **Judges:** Martin, Batchelder, McKeague
- **Cited by:** 99 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that for a § 1983 claim, “the state itself is not a properly named defendant, as it is shielded from suit under the doctrine of sovereign immunity”

## Opinion text

ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in Judge Martin’s opinion. I write separately only to express my suspicion that, like the reports of Mark Twain’s death, see The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Third Edition, 2002), the report *655 of the death of Latin in the majority opinion’s footnote 5 is greatly exaggerated.

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