The Brief
- A federal appeals court has ruled that part of a lawsuit filed by comedians Eric Andre and Clayton English against the Clayton County Police Department can go forward despite a previous dismissal.
- The comedians sued the department over their arrests at the Atlanta airport during bag searches on the jet bridge.
- While the judges did not find cause that the arrests and searches violated the Equal Protection Clause, they said Andre and English “plausibly alleged that Clayton County subjected them to unreasonable searches and seizures.”
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. – A federal appeals court has ruled that part of comedians Eric Andre and Clayton English’s civil rights lawsuit against the Clayton County Police Department can go forward.
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The ruling reverses a previous dismissal of the lawsuit by a district court in 2023. …