Legal Opinion
David Carter v. Timothy Filbeck
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 3, 2016No. 15-12529PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judge:
Defendant-Appellant Timothy Filbeck was a lieutenant with the Butts County Sheriffs Office. When his house was foreclosed upon, he, like anyone else who has been through foreclosure, had certain options available to him. But arresting the new owner’s agents, Plaintiffs-Appellees David Carter, Clayton Graham, Jr., and Mitchell Webster (collectively, “Plaintiffs”), who were lawfully performing their jobs, was not one of them. And neither was ordering Plaintiffs handcuffed and thrown in jail overnight. We think that should go without saying. Yet Filbeck did these things,…
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