Legal Opinion

Patricia Scott v. Clay County, Tennessee Chinn Anderson Billy Pierce Michael Thompson

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided March 1, 2000No. 98-6157PublishedCited by 311 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtKrupansky, J., joined by Boggs, J.,

CLAY, J. (pp. 880-81), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.

OPINION

KRUPANSKY, Circuit Judge.

The defendants-appellants Clay County, Tennessee (“the County”), Sheriff Cecil “Chinn” Anderson (“Anderson”), Deputy Billy Pierce (“Pierce”), and Deputy Michael Thompson (“Thompson”) have contested the district court’s denial of their motion, anchored in qualified immunity, for Fed.R.Civ.P. 56 summary adjudication of the federal civil rights claims of the plaintiff-appellee Patricia Scott (“Patricia” or “the plaintiff’). The plaintiff alleged in her single-count complaint that Clay County Sheriffs…

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