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FARRED v. HICKS

No. 89-8182.

915 F.2d 1530 (1990)

Ali FARRED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. J.M. HICKS, Officer, DeKalb County Police Department, A.B. Blaisdell, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 31, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Randolph Evans, Jr., Arnall Golden & Gregory, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant.

Albert Sidney Johnson, Office of Dekalb Co. Atty., Decatur, Ga., Harry W. MacDougald, Johnson & Montgomery, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellees.

Before JOHNSON and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, Senior Circuit Judge.

HATCHETT, Circuit Judge.

In addition to other issues, the parties urge us to venture into Georgia's unsettled law regarding the preclusive effect of state criminal actions upon subsequent civil actions. Because we are bound by Eleventh Circuit precedent, we follow it, leave the Georgia law on collateral estoppel unsettled, and reverse the district court.

FACTS

On January 29, 1987, J.M. Hicks, a police officer in the DeKalb County Police Department...

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