Geneva Roland v. E.W. Phillips David Benjamin Lin Harrell

BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

In this interlocutory appeal, we decide for the first time in our circuit whether a county sheriff and deputy sheriffs are accorded absolute quasi-judicial immunity for acts done to enforce valid judicial orders. The district court denied these county law enforcement officials summary judgment. We REVERSE and REMAND.

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiff-appellee Geneva Roland is the president of Roland Well Drilling, Inc., which owns and operates a water distribution system in the Robinwood Subdivision of Bain-bridge, Georgia. Following notice, at approximately noon on December 24,…