Legal Opinion

Purvis v. City of Atlanta

District Court, N.D. Georgia

Decided September 29, 2015No. Civil Action No. 1:14-CV-03701-ATPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

AMY TOTENBERG, District Judge.

In this action, Plaintiff Chris Purvis asserts state and federal causes of action against Defendants City of Atlanta; Fulton County, Georgia; and Fulton County Sheriff Theodore Jackson, in his individual and official capacities (Fulton County and Sheriff Jackson are referred to as the “Fulton County Defendants”), Plaintiff alleges that he was lawfully arrested by a City of Atlanta police officer for drinking in public and then unlawfully held by the City of Atlanta and Fulton County for an additional five to six days on an invalid warrant. Pending before the…

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