Mt. Healthy City Board of Ed. v. Doyle
429 U.S. 274 (1977) Cited 8,984 times 6 Legal AnalysesHolding if a plaintiff can show a prima facie case of First Amendment retaliation, the district court should go on to determine whether the defendant has shown "by a preponderance of the evidence that it would have reached the same decision ... even in the absence of the protected conduct"
Wascura v. Carver
169 F.3d 683 (11th Cir. 1999) Cited 160 times 4 Legal AnalysesHolding that public officials sued in an individual capacity were not employers subject to individual liability under the FMLA
Dawkins v. Fulton Cnty. Gov't
733 F.3d 1084 (11th Cir. 2013) Cited 32 times 3 Legal AnalysesFinding that Dawkins could not succeed on his equitable estoppel claim because he could not establish detrimental reliance
Cook v. Colquitt County Board of Education
261 Ga. 841 (Ga. 1992) Cited 33 times 1 Legal AnalysesIn Cook, the Georgia Supreme Court reaffirmed the well-established rule that, in Georgia, "a county board of education, unlike the school district which it manages, is not a body corporate and does not have the capacity to sue or be sued."Id. at 841, 412 S.E.2d at 828.
Tidwell v. Coweta County Board of Education
240 Ga. App. 55 (Ga. Ct. App. 1999) Cited 10 timesA99A1013. DECIDED AUGUST 30, 1999. Sovereign immunity. Coweta Superior Court. Before Judge Lee. Hinton Powell, Andrew J. Hinton, Jr., Debra Haan, for appellants. Rosenzweig, Jones MacNabb, Joseph P. MacNabb, Chambers Mabry, McClelland Brooks, James T. Budd, E. Wycliffe Orr, Kristine E. Orr, for appellee. MILLER, Judge. Bobby and Lillie Tidwell sued the Coweta County Board of Education for the wrongful death and suffering of their developmentally disabled son, who died from injuries caused when he
Mumphrey v. Fulton County Government
CIVIL ACTION FILE NO. 1:06-CV-2762-TWT (N.D. Ga. Apr. 9, 2008)CIVIL ACTION FILE NO. 1:06-CV-2762-TWT. April 9, 2008 ORDER THOMAS THRASH JR., District Judge This is an employment discrimination case. It is before the Court on the Defendants Fulton County and Myron Freeman's Motion for Summary Judgment [Doc. 32]. For reasons stated below, the motion is granted. I. Background Since 1991, Sandra Mumphrey has worked in the Fulton County Sheriff's Office as a Deputy III Field Training Officer. In 2003, her psychiatrist diagnosed Mumphrey with major depression and
Rule 4 - Summons
Fed. R. Civ. P. 4 Cited 69,012 times 122 Legal AnalysesHolding that if defendant is not served within 90 days after the complaint is filed, the court—on a motion, or on its own following notice to the plaintiff—must dismiss the action without prejudice against that defendant or order that service be made by a certain time
Rule 17 - Plaintiff and Defendant; Capacity; Public Officers
Fed. R. Civ. P. 17 Cited 9,152 times 23 Legal AnalysesProviding that, for this type of entity, "[c]apacity to sue or be sued is determined . . . by the law of the state where the court is located"