BRUCKER v. CITY OF DORAVILLE

No. 21-10122.

38 F.4th 876 (2022)

Hilda BRUCKER, Jeffery Thornton, Janice Craig, Byron Billingsley, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF DORAVILLE, a Georgia municipal corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Filed: June 24, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua A. House , Institute for Justice, Arlington, VA, William R. Maurer , Institute for Justice, Seattle, WA, Anthony Brian Sanders , Institute for Justice, Minneapolis, MN, Frank B. Strickland , Attorney, Taylor English Duma, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Hilda Brucker, Jeffery Thornton.

Joshua A. House , Institute for Justice, Arlington, VA, Anthony Brian Sanders , Institute for Justice, Minneapolis, MN, Frank B. Strickland , Attorney, Taylor English Duma, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Janice Craig, Byron Billingsley.

Harvey S. Gray , Alexandra Joseph , Gray Rust St. Amand Moffett & Brieske, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Micah West , Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL, for Amici Curiae Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, Southern Center for Human Rights, Southern Poverty Law Center, The Fines and Fees Justice Center, The National Police Accountability Project.

Rusi Chandrashkhar Patel , General Counsel, Georgia Municipal Association, Atlanta, GA, for Amicus Curiae Georgia Municipal Association, Inc.

Before Newsom, Branch, and Brasher, Circuit Judges.


The plaintiffs in this lawsuit—Hilda Brucker, Jeffery Thornton, Janice Craig, and Byron Billingsley—accuse the City of Doraville, Georgia, of violating their right to due process. Each of the four plaintiffs received citations from the City for traffic or property code violations, were convicted of those violations...

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