Amy C. Delcambre v. L. E. Delcambre, Jr.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that on-duty chief of police did not act under color of law when he assaulted his sister-in-law at police station because assault arose from purely private family dispute
• holding that on-duty chief of police did not act under color of law when he assaulted his sister-in-law at police station because assault arose from purely private family dispute
• holding that a police officer did not act under color of law when he assaulted his sister-in-law in part because “the altercation arose out of an argument over family and political matters”
• holding that a police chief was not acting under color of state law despite the fact that he was at work at the police station when he assaulted his sister-in-law over personal arguments about family issues
• finding that a police chief was not acting under color of state law when involved in an altercation with his sister-in-law while he was on duty
• dismissing a § 1983 claim involving an assault by an on-duty officer, because the assault “arose out of an argument over family and political matters and [the plaintiff] was neither arrested nor threatened with arrest”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).