Legal Opinion
Smith v. Siegelman
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 28, 2003No. 02-10005PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
The sole issue in this interlocutory appeal is whether nine public servants, who are being sued for money damages in their individual capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, are entitled to qualified immunity with respect to the claim that they violated plaintiffs Fourteenth Amendment rights by designating him a child abuser without first affording him a due process hearing.1 The defendants raised their qualified immunity defense in a joint motion to dismiss the plaintiffs complaint; they asserted that the complaint showed on its face that they were immune from suit. The…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of NarcoticsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Larry Bonner v. City of Prichard, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1981
- Mitchell v. ForsythSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Malley v. BriggsSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by33 opinions
- Smith v. SiegelmanCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2003
- Jones v. BucknerDistrict Court, N.D. Alabama · 2013
- Ga. Dep't of Human Servs. v. SteinerSupreme Court of Georgia · 2018
- Kane v. Commissioner of Department of Health & Human ServicesSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2008
- Collier v. BucknerDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2018
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