POPHAM v. CITY OF TALLADEGA

No. 89-7499.

908 F.2d 1561 (1990)

Kathy Roberts POPHAM, As Administratrix of the Estate of Robert Popham, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF TALLADEGA, Police Chief, Mike Hamlin, in his individual and official capacity, Police Officer, Randy Jones, in his individual and official capacity, Police Officer, Mark Williams, in his individual and official capacity, and Mayor, George Montgomery, in his individual and official capacity, Councilman, Robert Duncan, in his individual and official capacity, Councilwoman, Edith Sims, in her individual and official capacity, Councilman, Charles Miller, in his individual and official capacity, Councilman, James Braswell, in his individual and official capacity and Councilman, Ken Payne, in his individual and official capacity, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 20, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Wiggins, Jr. and Ann R. Norton, Gordon, Silberman, Wiggins & Childs, P.C., Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiff-appellant.

David A. Lee and Mark W. Lee, Parsons, Lee & Juliano, P.C., Birmingham, Ala., for Hamlin, Jones, Williams, Montgomery, Duncan, Sims, Miller, Braswell and Payne.

E. Martin Bloom and William Anthony Davis, III, Starnes & Atchison, Birmingham, Ala., for City of Talladega.

Before KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge, RONEY and ALDISERT, Senior Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This appeal from a grant of summary judgment for the defendants arises out of a Christmas Eve jail suicide. Kathy Popham, widow of the decedent, filed a 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 action against the City of Talladega and various of its officials,1 claiming due process violations and state law relief under the wrongful death statutes of the State of Alabama.

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