Grain Land had to meet approximately $200,000 in margin calls on its outstanding HTA hedge transactions. 3 . Grain Land also filed a third-party complaint against Farmers Commodities Corporation, which was later dismissed without prejudice. 4 . We emphasize that our jurisdiction is limited to the dispute between Grain Land and Obermeyer. Although the district court’s pretrial order directing the creation of a master docket and case file and the filing of master pleadings is not entirely clear as to the degree of separation maintained by the individual actions, it appears the cases were merged for convenience and efficiency only. As such, we properly have jurisdiction only from the final judgment in Obermeyer’s case. See Tri-State Hotels, Inc. v. FDIC, 79 F.3d 707, 711-12 (8th Cir.1996) (<HOLDING>). 5 . The Fourth Circuit has explained the
holding a suit against an agency of the state is a suit against the state holding individual defendants subject to suit holding that a suit against a state official in his or her official capacity is not a suit against the official but rather is a suit against the officials office holding that a prior suit and a subsequent suit between the same parties did not involve the same claim because the evidence necessary to sustain the subsequent suit was insufficient to entitle the plaintiff to relief in the prior suit holding that where technical consolidation does not occur and cases are joined merely for convenience each suit retains its individual nature and appeal in one suit is not precluded solely because the other suit is still pending before the district court