immunity are cases where the court is asked to determine the rights or liabilities of that entity. See, e.g., Franceschi v. Schwartz, 57 F.3d 828 (9th Cir.1995) (determining whether municipal court commissioner violated civil rights laws); Greater Los Angeles Council on Deafness, Inc. v. Zolin, 812 F.2d 1103 (9th Cir,1987) (determining whether court and jury, commissioners were liable for not providing sign-language interpreters); O’Connor v. Nevada, 686 F.2d 749 (9th Cir.1982) (determining whether State Bar of Nevada violated civil rights laws). Conversely, the Eleventh Amendment does not apply in cases where the entity invoking the immunity is sued only in its representative capacity. See Excess and Casualty Reinsurance Ass’n v. Insurance Comm’r of Cal., 656 F.2d 491 (9th Cir.1981) (<HOLDING>); Finkielstain v. Seidel, 857 F.2d 893 (2d
holding that a public corporation in that case a commission created to provide information about the tva is an entity separate from the state and its acts are not acts of the state  within the meaning of the state constitutions prohibition against the state creating new debts holding that an official capacity suit should be treated as a suit against the entity holding that there is no private right of action against a state governmental entity for violations of the texas constitution holding a state agency as an arm of the state cannot constitute a person under  1983 because it is a sovereign entity holding that an action naming a state entity as a defendant did not constitute an action against the state because the state entity was sued in its capacity as receiver