for Health and Family Services (the Cabinet). Sefa alleged that the Cabinet kidnapped his niece and nephew in connection with a state-court action for neglect instituted against two of Sefa’s sisters. Sefa claimed that the Cabinet violated his rights under the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, suing under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1988. He also raised claims under several other federal statutes in his complaint. The district court dismissed Sefa’s complaint for failure to state a claim. Sefa appeals, reasserting his claims for monetary and declaratory relief, as well as “seekpng] [an] injunctive order” directing the Cabinet to release his niece and nephew from state custody and to halt all “spiritual attacks” against his family. We re Cir.1991) (<HOLDING>). Moreover, the Cabinet is not a “person”
recognizing that claims against a state under  1981 are barred by the eleventh amendment holding that the eleventh amendment bars blyshrl and nychrl claims against a state agency in federal court holding that a takings claim was barred under the eleventh amendment where state courts provided a means of redress for such claims holding california school district a state agency for purposes of the eleventh amendment recognizing that section 1983 claims against a state agency are barred by the eleventh amendment