ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FLORIDA

v.

LUCAS ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (24 total)

• Vanguard Ins. Co. v. ST. Johns Cnty., 578 So. 2d 1132 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991)
  …county and the award of attorney’s fees to the county, holding that under applicable Florida and federal law, 'the actions of Sheriff O’Lough-lin were the actions of St. Johns County. Lucas v. O’Loughlin, 831 F. 2d 232 (11th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 1035, 108 S.Ct. 1595, 99 L.Ed.2d 909 (1988).1 Thereafter, St. Johns County and Lucas entered into a consent order in the federal district court in which the county agreed to pay Lucas $55,878.93 representing the original damage award against the sheriff…
• McMILLIAN v. W.E. Johnson, 88 F.3d 1573 (11th Cir. 1996)
  …hat, under Alabama law, law enforcement is an exercise of state power, whereas jail maintenance is an exercise of county power, accords with our other precedent. McMillian argues that Lucas v. O’Loughlin, 831 F. 2d 232 (11th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 1035, 108 S.Ct. 1595, 99 L.Ed.2d 909 (1988), and the two Fifth Circuit cases upon which it relied demonstrate that a sheriff is a county policymaker in the area of law enforcement. He contends that the factors we relied on to hold that a Florida sheriff’…
• Hutton v. Hutton, 919 F.2d 1531 (11th Cir. 1990)
  …rmined that Florida sheriffs are county officials as opposed to state officials. Hufford v. Rodgers, 912 F. 2d 1338, 1341-42 (11th Cir.1990); Lundgren, 814 F. 2d at 605 n. 4; see Lucas v. O'Loughlin, 831 F. 2d 232, 234 (11th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 1035, 108 S.Ct. 1595, 99 L.Ed.2d 909 (1988); see also Bailey v. Wictzack, 735 F.Supp. 1016, 1019 (M.D.Fla.1990) ("[U]nder Florida's constitutional scheme, a county has an existence independent of the state and the sheriff is a county rather than a state…