United States Eleventh Circuit

On remand from the Supreme Court, the district court's grant of qualified immunity to a school that performed a strip search on its students is affirmed, even in light of Hope v. Pelzer, 122 S. Ct. 2508 (2002), which requires courts to be less rigid when evaluating caselaw to determine whether a public official had fair warning that his actions would be unlawful.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/10/2003
• Published 03/11/2003

Judges

• COX, Circuit Judge:, Before BLACK, RONEY and COX, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gerald R. Weber, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Michael R. Hauptman, Atlanta, GA, Torin D. Togut, Vermont Protection & Advocacy, Barre, VT, Robert L. Tsai, ACLU, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Debra A. Golymbieski, Decatur, GA, Jack Reynolds Hancock, Brian Richard Dempsey, Hancock, Story & Dempsey, LLC, Forest Park, GA, Don R. Foster, Foster & Foster, P.C., Jonesboro, GA, J. Stanley Hawkins, Gary M. Sams, Weekes & Candler, Decatur, GA, Roger Scott Sumrall, Beth W. Kanik, Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, P.C., Laura Louise Lones, Staff Attorney's Office, Atlanta, GA, Robert E. Wilson, Wilson, Morton & Downs, L.L.C., Decatur, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.