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TAYLOR v. ADAMS

Nos. 99-6195, 99-6201.

221 F.3d 1254 (2000)

Viola TAYLOR, as Administratrix of the Estate of Jimmie Lee Mason, Jr., deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lonnie ADAMS, James Connick, et al., Defendants-Appellants. Viola Taylor, as Administratrix of the Estate of Jimmie Lee Mason, Jr., deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Crystal Threadgill, Jack Tillman, Sheriff Jack Tillman, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 11, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Brian Rossler, Stout & Rossler, Marcus Edward McDowell, Frazer, Greene, Upchurch & Baker, Robert C. Campbell, III, Frank G. Taylor, Sintz, Campbell, Duke & Taylor, Mobile, AL, for Defendants-Appellants.

William Kyle Morris, Sintz, Campbell, Duke & Taylor, Lawrence McCown Wettermark, Collins, Galloway & Smith, Mobile, AL, for Threadgill and Tillman.

Ronnie L. Williams, Mobile, AL, Thomas O. Gaillard, III, Galloway, Smith, Wettermark & Everest, Michael E. Upchurch, W. Austin Mulherin, III, Frazer, Greene, Upchurch & Baker, L.L.C., Mark Lyons Redditt, Cherry, Givens, Peters & Lockett, Mobile, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before COX and HULL, Circuit Judges, and GEORGE, District Judge.

COX, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the denial of summary judgment, sought on various immunity grounds, to three firemen and a jail nurse on claims arising from the death of Jimmie Lee Mason, Jr. We reverse.

Background

On a hot August day in 1995, employees of a Mobile, Alabama drugstore chased Jimmie Lee Mason, a suspected shoplifter, several blocks before finally apprehending him. They held Mason...

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