Legal Opinion
Shorts v. Bartholomew
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 17, 2007No. 06-5877UnpublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge.
Michael Lee Shorts appeals the order of the district court granting summary judgment to the County of Carroll, Tennessee (hereinafter “the County”), and Bendell Bartholomew, the Carroll County Sheriff. Shorts was an inmate in the Carroll County jail who filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action stating a single claim; that someone, somehow, had caused him to remain incarcerated beyond his court ordered release date. In pursuing this claim, Shorts named two defendants, Bartholomew and the County, and asserted two ways by which the County might be liable. Both…
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