United States Eleventh Circuit

In claim against jailers at county detention center for excessive force and deliberate indifference in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, denial of defendants' motions to dismiss on qualified immunity grounds is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff has established the necessary causal connection to hold defendants liable in their supervisory capacities; and 2)"there is no room for qualified immunity" in Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment excessive force cases because they require a subjective element that is "so extreme" that no reasonable person could believe that his actions were lawful.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/22/2008
• Published 08/22/2008

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before BLACK and CARNES, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Henry F. Sherrod, III, Henry F. Sherrod, III, PC, Florence, AL, for Danley.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daryl L. Masters, Bart Gregory Harmon, Charles Richard Hill, Jr., Webb & Eley, PC, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellants.