Case Name: Jerry Lynn YOUNG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Neal B. BIGGERS, Jr., et al., Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1987-08-26
Citations: 826 F.2d 1399
Docket Number: No. 86-4132
Parties: Jerry Lynn YOUNG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Neal B. BIGGERS, Jr., et al., Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 826
Pages: 1399–1400

Head Matter:
Jerry Lynn YOUNG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Neal B. BIGGERS, Jr., et al., Defendant-Appellee.
No. 86-4132.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Aug. 26, 1987.
ON SUGGESTION FOR REHEARING EN BANC
(Opinion 7-2-87, 5 Cir., 1987, 820 F.2d 727)
Before THORNBERRY, GEE and REAVLEY, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Treating the suggestions for rehearing en banc as petitions for panel rehearing, it is ordered that the petitions for panel rehearing are DENIED. No member of the panel nor Judge in regular active service of this Court having requested that the Court be polled on rehearing en banc (Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure and Local Rule 35), the suggestions for Rehearing En Banc are DENIED.
We note in passing that in remanding this cause to the trial court we do not foreclose its possible dismissal as to "private citizen" defendants on limitations grounds, nor, for that matter, as to public officials on grounds of immunity. It well may be that, in the instance of the private citizen defendants, the retroactive application of Gates v. Spinks, 771 F.2d 916 (5th Cir.1985), cert. denied - U.S. -, 106 S.Ct. 1378, 89 L.Ed.2d 603 (1986) is not forbidden by the Supreme Court's AlKhazraji decision, there having never been any question that the longer, six-year statute applicable to law-enforcement officials applied to the private defendants. We simply conclude that Al-Khazraji forecloses the across-the-board dismissal of the defendants decreed by the trial court; and we remand to that court for further consideration of the case in the light of our opinions and of Al-Khazraji, handed down long after the court's decision.
. St. Francis College v. Majid Ghaidan AlKhazraji, - U.S. -, 107 S.Ct. 2022, 95 L.Ed.2d 582 (1987).