Brew v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “proper focus is not upon the right at its most general or abstract level, but at the level of its application to the specific conduct being challenged” (internal quotations and citations omitted)
• noting that the Fourth Circuit has “specifically rejected section 1985 claims whenever the purported conspiracy is alleged in a merely conclusory manner”
• noting that to establish a § 1985(3) claim, a litigant must demonstrate that the defendant was motivated by a “class-based, invidiously discriminatory animus”
• noting that a conspiracy claimant “must show an agreement or a ‘meeting of the minds' by defendants to violate the claimant's constitutional rights.”
• emphasizing that the defendants’ “alleged deliberate difference to [the plaintiff’s] claims of sexual harassment” was “hardly the stuff of a conspiracy”
• emphasizing that the Court has “specifically rejected section 1985 claims whenever the purported conspiracy is alleged in a merely conclusory manner, in the absence of concrete supporting facts”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).