United States Eleventh Circuit

In this section 1983 excessive force case against a sheriff in his official capacity, the sheriff functions as an "arm of the State" in establishing use-of-force policy at the jail and in training and disciplining his deputies in that regard, and is entitled to Eleventh Amendment immunity for these particular functions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/28/2003
• Published 07/28/2003

Judges

• HULL, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT, ANDERSON, BIRCH, DUBINA, BLACK, CARNES, BARKETT, HULL, MARCUS and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard K. Strickland,Whelchel, Brown, Readdick & Bumgartner, Brunswick, GA, for Defendant-Appellant., Theodore H. Lackland, Lackland & Heyward, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.