Felicia Pellitteri v. Sheriff Chris Prine

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that a prior panel was “mistaken” to find in an unpublished opinion that a Georgia sheriff did not act as an arm of the State when making personnel decisions regarding his deputies
• finding that, although sheriffs office was funded primarily by the county rather than the State, the third Manders factor weighed in favor of immunity because the State dictated the office’s funding structure
• “[T]o the extent that the state treasury will be spared here from paying any adverse judgment, this factor weighs in favor of denying immunity.”
• “[A]lthough each county sets the total budget for the sheriff’s office, it cannot dictate how the sheriff spends those funds.”
• “[Although each, county sets the total budget for the sheriffs office, it cannot dictate how the sheriff spends those funds.”
• “[T]o the extent that the state treasury will be spared here from paying any adverse judgment, this factor weighs in favor of denying immunity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).