HILL v. DEKALB REGIONAL YOUTH DETENTION CENTER

Nos. 92-8854, 92-9318.

40 F.3d 1176 (1994)

Shirley HILL, Individually and Mark Anthony Hill, Individually, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. DEKALB REGIONAL YOUTH DETENTION CENTER, et al., Defendants, County of Dekalb, Georgia a/k/a Dekalb Regional Youth Detention Center, Faye Swain, Defendants-Appellants. Shirley HILL, Individually and Mark Anthony Hill, Individually, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. DEKALB REGIONAL YOUTH DETENTION CENTER, et al., Defendants, County of Dekalb, Georgia a/k/a Dekalb Regional Youth Detention Center, Donald Wilkinson and Dolphus Lewis, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 27, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joan F. Roach, Melinda Bruley White, Robert H. Walling, Dekalb County Attys. Office, Decatur, GA, for Dekalb County.

William C. Joy, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jennifer L. Hackemeyer, Cynthia Honssinger Frank, Dept. of Law, Atlanta, GA, for Swaine, Wilkinson & Lewis.

Michael T. Bennett, Robert H. Benfield, Jr., Bennett, Callahan & Schloegel, Atlanta, GA, for appellees.

Before ANDERSON and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, ATKINS, Senior District Judge.


BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

These consolidated interlocutory appeals arise from denials of summary judgment where governmental employees claimed qualified immunity and the county maintained no responsibility in connection with the sexual assault upon a minor while in the custody of a youth detention center. The district court determined that the individual governmental defendants were ineligible for qualified immunity, and that the county incurred liability through implementation...

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