LAMBERT v. WILLIAMS

No. 99-1819.

223 F.3d 257 (2000)

Anthony LAMBERT, Sr.; Marion Knight Lambert, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Brenda G. WILLIAMS, individually and in her official capacity as a Social Worker; Velveeta R. Reid, individually and in her official capacity as Social Worker; Darlene Reid, individually and in her official capacity as Social Worker; Alice E. Stallings, individually and in her official capacity as Service Supervisor; Viola Spivey, individually; Willie Bines, individually; Gwendolyn C. Coleman, individually and in her capacity as Director, Pasquotank County Department of Social Services; Pasquotank County Department of Social Services; Pasquotank County Board of Social Services; Pasquotank County, North Carolina; Board of Commissioners, Pasquotank County, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: August 7, 2000


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Lawton P. Cummings, Student, Appellate Litigation Program, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Coleman M. Cowan, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, P.L.L.C., Raleigh, NC; Thomas Giles Meacham, Jr., North Carolina Attorney General's Office, Raleigh, NC, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Steven H. Goldblatt, Director, Nicole J. Williams, Student, Appellate Litigation Program, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Robert H. Sasser, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, P.L.L.C., Raleigh, NC, for Appellees Williams, et al.

Before MOTZ, Circuit Judge, WILSON, Chief United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation, and LEE, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


Affirmed by published opinion. Chief Judge WILSON wrote the opinion, in which Judge MOTZ and Judge LEE joined.

OPINION

WILSON, Chief District Judge:

Appellants Anthony Lambert, Sr., and Marion Knight Lambert ("the Lamberts") appeal from the district court's order dismissing their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. In an earlier decision, we held that res judicata barred all claims asserted by the Lamberts, with the exception of a claim for malicious...

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