United States Eleventh Circuit

Public servants, who are being sued for money damages in their individual capacities under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, are entitled to qualified immunity with respect to the claim that they violated plaintiff's Fourteenth Amendment rights by designating him a child abuser without first affording him a due process hearing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/04/2003
• Published 03/04/2003

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, WILSON and COWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James Edward Long,Alabama Dept. of Human Resources, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellants., Roger C. Appell, Law Offices of Roger C. Appell, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.