Legal Opinion
Michael Leslie Lake v. Michael Skelton
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 3, 2016No. 15-13124PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This interlocutory appeal requires us to decide whether sovereign' immunity bars a complaint for damages against a deputy sheriff who failed to accommodate a dietary request from an inmate in a county jail in Georgia. Michael Leslie Lake requested a vegetarian diet for religious reasons during his pretrial detention. After his jailers denied the request, Lake sued Major Michael Skelton in his official capacity as a deputy sheriff of Cobb County. Lake sought declaratory relief, damages, fees, and costs for violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments and the…
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