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RITTENHOUSE v. DeKALB COUNTY

No. 84-8039.

764 F.2d 1451 (1985)

Barbara RITTENHOUSE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DeKALB COUNTY, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Karen Bullard, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 9, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles B. Tanksley, Atlanta, Ga., for B. Rittenhouse.

D.W. Rolader, Roswell, Ga., for K. Bullard.

George P. Dillard, Stephen A. Friedman, Decatur, Ga., for DeKalb & Stewart.

Fred W. Ajax, Jr., Harvey S. Gray, Michael Rust, J. Loren Fowler, Atlanta, Ga., for City of Chamblee.

Before VANCE and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and PITTMAN, Senior District Judge.

R. LANIER ANDERSON, III, Circuit Judge:

The Supreme Court held in Parratt v. Taylor, 451 U.S. 527, 101 S.Ct. 1908, 68 L.Ed.2d 420 (1981), that a prisoner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights were not violated when prison officials negligently lost his property, since the prisoner had an adequate remedy available under state law to redress the wrong. In this appeal, we must first address the contention that the Parratt...

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