United States Sixth Circuit

Failure to explicitly state in civil rights complaint that state officers are being sued in their individual capacities may still provide sufficient notice to those officers that they are being sued in their individual capacities.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/06/2000
• Decided 11/08/2001
• Published 11/08/2001

Judges

• Before: MARTIN, Chief Judge;  MERRITT, NELSON, BOGGS, NORRIS, SUHRHEINRICH, SILER, BATCHELDER, DAUGHTREY, MOORE, COLE, CLAY, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Donald K. Vowell (argued and briefed), Vowell & Associates, Knoxville, TN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert H. Watson, Jr. (briefed), Nathan D. Rowell (argued and briefed), Watson, Hollow & Reeves, Knoxville, TN, for Defendants-Appellees.