Ali Farred v. J.M. Hicks, Officer, Dekalb County Police Department, A.B. Blaisdell

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “Georgia retains the old ‘mutuality’ rule of collateral estoppel requiring an ‘identity of parties or their privies’ to bar a second law suit”
• “Governmental entities may be held liable under section 1983 when a governmental ‘policy or custom’ is the ‘moving force’ behind the constitutional deprivation.”
• “[A]lthough [the plaintiff] was a party in the state criminal proceeding and is a party in this civil case, neither the police officers nor the [head of the police department] were parties to the criminal case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).