Legal Opinion
Sherry J. Anderson v. City of Atlanta
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 16, 1985No. 84-8493PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge:
I. FACTS
A. Procedural History.
This civil rights action, filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleges constitutional violations which plaintiffs contend resulted in the death of Larry Gene Anderson while he was in custody at the Atlanta Pre-trial Detention Center. Named as defendants were the individual police officers involved in the arrest of Larry Gene Anderson, R.L. Kelly, W.R. Burks, A. Bieri and M.T. Pickering. Also named as defendants were George Napper, the Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety; Morris Red-ding, the Chief of Police of the Atlanta Bureau of…
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