Caddis Lee Dukes v. Smitherman, Sheriff Austain Lavert Bibb County Commission
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
This appeal is from the entry of a summary judgment in favor of the defendants in a pro se civil rights suit brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Agreeing with the conclusion of the district court that the statute of limitations had expired, we affirm.
Dukes brought this action against the Bibb County Commission, a former Bibb County Sheriff (Smitherman), and a former jailer (Levert) at the Bibb County Jail. He alleged that the defendants denied him adequate medical care and visitation privileges after he was attacked by another inmate. He requested only monetary relief.
The defendants moved to…
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