WILLIAMSON v. STIRLING

No. 17-6922.

912 F.3d 154 (2018)

Dustin Robert WILLIAMSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Bryan STIRLING; Deloris Charlton; Ed Carroll; David Miller; Clarence Rogers, Defendants-Appellees. Terry A. Kupers; Craig Haney; Pablo Stewart; Stuart Grassian; Professors and Practioners of Psychology and Psychiatry, Amici Supporting Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: December 21, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Jeff Philip Johnson, WINSTON & STRAWN LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Andrew Lindemann, LINDEMANN, DAVIS & HUGHES, PA, Columbia, South Carolina; Daniel C. Plyler, DAVIDSON, WREN & PLYLER, PA, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Daniel M. Greenfield, Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Chicago, Illinois; Charles Klein, WINSTON & STRAWN LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. David A. DeMasters, DAVIDSON & LINDEMANN, P.A., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees Ed Carroll and Deloris Charlton. Andrew P. Valentine, East Palo Alto, California, Kenneth L. Schmetterer, DLA PIPER LLP (US), Chicago, Illinois, for Amici Curiae.

Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge King wrote the opinion, in which Judge Keenan and Judge Gibney joined.


Dustin Robert Williamson appeals from summary judgment awards made by the district court in South Carolina to several officials of Barnwell County and the State's Department of Corrections (the "SCDC"), with respect to Williamson's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit for due process violations. Put succinctly, Williamson maintains...

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