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Alabama Sheriff Made Party on Counterclaim Alleging Prisoners Subjected to Sexual Abuse
Loaded on March 15, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2014, page 36
The Alabama Supreme Court has held that a third party to a lawsuit may be made a party when a counterclaim is filed. The Court also held a sheriff named as a defendant was not entitled to qualified immunity on a federal claim in her individual capacity, but was entitled ...
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