Melanie Lydia Dacosta v. Stanislaus Nwachukwa
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
Stanislaus Nwachukwa (Appellant), a college instructor at Georgia Military college, appeals the district court’s denial of his motion to dismiss Melanie Lydia Da-costa’s suit, filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, on the basis of qualified immunity. The district court denied Appellant’s motion to dismiss, finding that Dacosta’s complaint alleged a violation of her substantive due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Appellant asserts that his conduct, as alleged in Dacosta’s complaint, amounts to only a state law tort and does not constitute a…
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