DAVIS v. CLUET, PEABODY & CO.

No. 81-7226.

667 F.2d 1371 (1982)

Samuel DAVIS, E. Leon Green and Alice Fay Price, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CLUET, PEABODY & COMPANY, d/b/a Lady Arrow Shirt Co., J. Kirk Barefoot, George Harris, John Knighton, William Morrone, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 16, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hill, Jones & Associates, P. C., Joseph Jones, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Charles M. Shaffer, Jr., J. Kevin Buster, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellees.

Before TUTTLE, HILL and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.


JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs sued defendants in state court on claims arising out of plaintiffs' alleged involuntary detention by defendants during an investigation of thefts at a company plant.1 They later amended their complaints, charging that defendants' actions had violated plaintiffs' Fourteenth Amendment rights. Defendants removed the case to federal court, alleging that plaintiffs' Fourteenth Amendment claims raised federal...

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