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Petition of the day

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on Feb 22, 2018
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The petition of the day is:

Lake v. Skelton
17-1089

Issue: Whether county sheriffs in Georgia function as an arm of the state, and are thus entitled to Eleventh Amendment immunity, when they feed (or fail to properly feed) people detained in the county jail.

Posted in Cases in the Pipeline

Cases: Lake v. Skelton

Recommended Citation: Aurora Barnes, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Feb. 22, 2018, 12:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/02/petition-of-the-day-1328/