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.

The ruling reverses a previous dismissal of the lawsuit by a district court in 2023.

The backstory:

According to the lawsuit, André had finished a shoot for HBO’s "The Righteous Gemstones" and was traveling from Charleston, South Carolina, to his home in Los Angeles on April 21, 2021, when he was stopped after a layover in Atlanta.

During the layover, the comedian was stopped by investigators as they entered the jet bridge and asked to hand over his boarding pass and identification.

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While police say that Andre gave

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