THOMAS EX REL. THOMAS v. ROBERTS

No. 00-11361.

261 F.3d 1160 (2001)

Tiffany THOMAS, a minor by her father Gregory THOMAS, Carl G. Casey, a minor by his mother Virgil M. Casey, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. R.G. ROBERTS, individually and in her official capacity as Assistant Principal, West Clayton Elementary School, Zannie Billingslea, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 15, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Torin D. Togut, Georgia Legal Services Program, Gerald R. Weber, Robert Lo-Pei Tsai, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Michael R. Hauptman, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Debra A. Golymbieski, Decatur, GA, Jack Reynolds Hancock, Brian Richard Dempsey, Hancock & Echols, Forest Park, GA, Don R. Foster, Foster & Foster, P.C., Jonesboro, GA, J. Stanley Hawkins, Gary M. Sams, Laura Louise Lones, Weekes & Candler, Robert E. Wilson, Wilson, Morton & Downs, L.L.C., Decatur, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before BLACK, RONEY and COX, Circuit Judges.


COX, Circuit Judge:

The appellants, thirteen schoolchildren in Clayton County, Georgia, sued their teacher Tracey Morgan, Officer Zannie Billingslea of the Clayton County Police, their school's assistant principal R.G. Roberts, the school's principal Ralph Matthews, the Clayton County School District, and the County, alleging that they were subject to unconstitutional strip searches. The district court found that the strip searches1 were...

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