Geneva Roland v. E.W. Phillips David Benjamin Lin Harrell

U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit · Decided 1994-04-15

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BIRCH, Circuit Judge: In this interlocutory appeal, we decide for the first time in our circuit whether a county sheriff and deputy sheriffs are accorded absolute quasi-judicial immunity for acts done to enforce valid judicial orders. The district court denied these county law enforcement officials summary judgment. We REVERSE and REMAND. I. BACKGROUND…

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