369 (D.Conn.2000) (“[I]n an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ‘a federal court’s remedial power, consistent with the Eleventh Amendment, is necessarily limited to prospective injunctive relief ... and may not include any award of damages which requires payment of funds from the State Treasury’ ”) (quoting Edelman v. Jordan, 415 U.S. 651, 677, 94 S.Ct. 1347, 39 L.Ed.2d 662 (1974)). K. Qualified immunity Qualified immunity protects government officials from liability when “their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.” Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818, 102 S.Ct. 2727, 73 L.Ed.2d 396 (1982) (citations omitted); see also Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511, 526, 105 S.Ct. 2806, 86 L.Ed.2d 411 (1985) (<HOLDING>). “[T]he salient question [in determining
holding that qualified immunity is not merely immunity from damages but also immunity from suit holding trial court improperly granted dismissal on ground of immunity because the defendant had qualified statutory immunity rather than absolute immunity holding that defendants are not entitled to qualified immunity recognizing that under texas law governmental immunity embraces two principles immunity from liability and immunity from suit holding immunity from liability is not jurisdictional