Legal Opinion

J. Kenneth Brantley, Edgar v. Lewis, Craig R. Smith, and Garland P. Castleberry

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Decided January 21, 1993No. 89-8150PublishedCited by 50 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LYNNE, Senior District Judge:

The question facing the panel on this interlocutory appeal after remand from the en banc Court, Green v. Brantley, 941 F.2d 1146 (11th Cir.1991), is whether the court below should have granted the defendants-appellants’ motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity. First, however, this Court has the obligation to “ ‘satisfy itself not only of its own jurisdiction, but also that of the lower courts in a cause under review.’ ” Bender v. Williamsport Area School Dist., 475 U.S. 534, 541, 106 S.Ct. 1326, 1331, 89 L.Ed.2d 501 (1986) (quoting Mitchell v.…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of NarcoticsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. Mitchell v. ForsythSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  3. Davis v. PassmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  4. Bender v. Williamsport Area School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  5. FW/PBS, Inc. v. City of DallasSupreme Court of the United States · 1990

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3Cited by50 opinions

  1. Ashley Hunt Greenwood v. Federal Aviation AdministrationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1994
  2. Richard Merritt & Mary-Jo Merritt v. Shuttle, Inc., U.S. Airways Inc., Terry v. Hallcom, Steven K. Wilson, & United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
  3. Joseph McNeil John Blankenship, Kevin O'DOnnell and United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1999
  4. Zephyr Aviation, L.L.C., Zephyr Aviation, L.L.C. v. Robert Alan Dailey, Also Known as Bob Dailey Kenneth Wayne Clary, Also Known as Ken ClaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2001
  5. State Of New Jersey, Department Of Environmental Protection And Energy v. Long Island Power AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1994

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