- Collection:
- Press Releases
- Title:
- Appellate Litigation Clinic wins case before the 11th Circuit
- Creator:
- Communications and Public Relations, Office of
- Date of Original:
- 2022-09-23
- Subject:
- University of Georgia. School of Law
Law--Study and teaching - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The Appellate Litigation Clinic (http://law.uga.edu/appellate-litigation-clinic) has won its case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Third-year student Roby A. Jernigan presented oral argument in the case Jordan v. State of Georgia during July. The clinic's client was stabbed 11 times by his cellmate while two officers watched from outside his door. The question raised was whether the officers violated Jordan’s Eighth Amendment rights by failing to prevent the attack and by failing to intervene once it started. The Eleventh Circuit Court remanded because the District Court granted summary judgment to the officers before they produced the incident reports. The Appellate Litigation Clinic obtained those reports on appeal, and they contained information that would have helped their client defend against the officers’ summary judgment motion. Class of 2022 graduates Tinsley J. Stokes and Mark L. Bailey helped write the briefs.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/press_releases/1560
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
- Rights:
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