D.H. BY DAWSON v. CLAYTON COUNTY SCHOOL DIST.

No. 14-14960.

830 F.3d 1306 (2016)

D.H., a minor BY his mother, Angela DAWSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CLAYTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Defendants, Tyrus McDowell, former Eddie White Academy Assistant Principal; individually, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Date Filed: July 29, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald Richard Weber, Jr. , Law Offices of Gerry Weber, LLC, Atlanta, GA, Tracey B. Cowan , Adam Brett Wolf , Peiffer Rosca Wolf Abdullah Carr & Kane, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Craig Goodmark , Goodmark Law Firm, LLC, Decatur, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Aynsley Meredith Harrow , Insley & Race, LLC, Atlanta, GA, John C. Jones , Law Offices of John C. Jones, Marietta, GA, William F. Amideo , Law Office of William F. Amideo, Alpharetta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Charles Bachman, Jr. , Lauren Alane Nations , Gregory Doyle Calhoun & Rogers, LLC, Marietta, GA, for Clayton County School District.

Donald Ray Foster , Travis W. Smith , Foster & Foster, PC, Jonesboro, GA, for Kemuel Kimbrough, former Chief of the Clayton County Sheriff's Office, individually.

Darren T. Horvath , Taylor English Duma, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Ricky Redding, former School Resource Officer, individually.

Before HULL and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and MARTINEZ, District Judge.


In this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, Defendant Tyrus McDowell appeals the district court's interlocutory order denying his motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity. The district court found that Assistant Principal McDowell's strip search of a minor student violated clearly established constitutional law. After...

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