Our firm was asked by the International Municipal Lawyers Association, the Georgia Association County Commissioners, and Georgia Municipal Association to file a brief in support of a petition for review by the United States Supreme Court by former Muscogee County Sheriff’s Department Correctional Officer Keyvon Sellers. Earlier this year Officer Sellers was denied qualified immunity in a case where an inmate attacked and killed another inmate. The decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit which one of the judges described as based on the “barest scintilla of evidence,” concluded that two persons of different races should not have been housed together in the same jail cell.
The brief, supported by two Georgia organizations and an International Association of communities sought to outline the broader impacts of the lower court’s decision on local governments in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
