Legal Opinion
Dianne Mullinax v. E.B. McElhenney Clifford Sticher and Robert E. Keller
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 26, 1987No. 86-8197PublishedCited by 152 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:
This Section 1983 case concerns an appeal by a plaintiff from an order granting summary judgment in favor of two of the defendants on the grounds that they were entitled to absolute immunity as to some of their actions and that the statute of limitations had expired as to the remainder of their actions. We affirm the district court’s order as to absolute immunity but reverse its finding as to the statute of limitations.
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BACKGROUND
In the summer of 1982, Dianne Mullinax, a paralegal, was involved in the representation of Billy Joe Wallace who had been arrested in Clayton…
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