Legal Opinion
Davis v. Fulton County
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 17, 1996No. 95-3157PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANA E. MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Bobby Davis brought this action after she was raped at her place of business by a detainee in the custody of the Fulton County sheriffs department. She sued the county, the county Quorum Court, individual members of the court, and employees of the sheriffs department under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state tort theories. The district court1 dismissed, for failure to state a claim, her constitutional claims against several of the defendants, her state tort claims, and a loss of consortium claim by her husband, Lloyd Mario Davis.2 It later granted the motion of the other…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Martinez v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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3Cited by28 opinions
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