Legal Opinion
White v. Lemacks
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 10, 1999No. 98-9513PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs William Rostad, acting as administrator for the estate of Jean Danison, and Phyllis White appeal the district court’s dismissal of their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint against the defendants, who are Clayton County Sheriff Billy Lemacks, Deputy Sheriff Stanley Tuggle, and Clayton County, Georgia. The district court dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the district court’s judgment.
I. BACKGROUND
A. FACTS
According to the amended complaint, White and Danison were nurses in the…
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