Petition of the day
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on Feb 22, 2018 at 6:12 pm
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The petition of the day is:
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.