CHILDRESS v. SMALL BUSINESS ADMIN.

No. 86-7681.

825 F.2d 1550 (1987)

Travis Rickey CHILDRESS, Slaton Jenkins Childress, Gary Dennis childress, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, et al., Defendants, A.G. McClearen and Clyde Rice, Jr., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 31, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert J. Lewis, III, Asst. U.S. Atty., Frank W. Donaldson, U.S. Atty., Birmingham, Ala., for defendants-appellants.

Charles F. Norton, Jr., Falkenberry, Whatley & Heidt, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before TJOFLAT and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and HENDERSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM:

The district court determined that appellants McClearen and Rice were not entitled to qualified immunity from this suit brought by members of the Childress family. Because this conclusion was erroneous, we reverse.

I. BACKGROUND

McClearen and Rice, defendants below, are local officials in the Farmers Home Administration ("FmHA") office in Marshall County, Alabama. The plaintiffs, members of the Childress family, were farmers in Marshall...

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