Brewster v. Nassau County

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that plaintiff failed to state Section 1983 claim where he alleged that corrections officers subjected him to, among other things, “abusive language, gestures, taunts, jeers, laughter, and harassment”
• dismissing plaintiff’s abuse of process claim for failure to allege or provide evidence of collateral purpose outside legitimate ends of process
• dismissing plaintiff’s abuse of process claim for failure to allege or provide evidence of collateral purpose outside legitimate ends of process
• noting that it is generally inadequate for a plaintiff to allege that a “municipality was ‘deliberately indifferent’ to the need to train . . . or supervise an officer” without “alleging any facts beyond the specific instance giving rise to the complaint”
• “ ‘A complaint containing only conclusory, vague, or general allegations of conspiracy to deprive a person of constitutional rights cannot withstand a motion to dismiss.’ ”
• “Claims alleging conspiracies to violate civil rights are held to a heightened pleading standard.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Harrison v. New York
  E.D. New York· 2015-03-20· cited 116×
• Ostroski v. Town of Southold
  E.D. New York· 2006-07-21· cited 67×
• Blake v. Race
  E.D. New York· 2007-03-29· cited 50×
• Jones v. National Communication & Surveillance Networks
  S.D. New York· 2006-01-12· cited 35×
• Frederique v. County of Nassau
  E.D. New York· 2016-03-11· cited 34×
• Fiedler v. Incandela
  E.D. New York· 2016-12-06· cited 34×
• Morpurgo v. Incorporated Village of Sag Harbor
  E.D. New York· 2010-03-05· cited 28×
• Skates v. Incorporated Village of Freeport
  E.D. New York· 2017-06-28· cited 17×
• Greenaway v. County of Nassau
  E.D. New York· 2015-03-31· cited 16×
• Collazo v. County of Suffolk
  E.D. New York· 2016-02-17· cited 16×

Cites

58 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs
  Supreme Court· 1966-03-28· cited 13,852×
• Carnegie-Mellon University v. Cohill
  Supreme Court· 1988-01-20· cited 9,468×
• Beck v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 5,133×
• Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co.
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-25· cited 4,631×
• City of Oklahoma v. Tuttle
  Supreme Court· 1985-08-14· cited 3,810×
• City of Revere v. Massachusetts General Hospital
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-27· cited 1,572×
• Daniel J. Ciambriello v. County of Nassau, Civil Service Employees Association, Inc., Russell Rinchiuso, Richard Cotugno and Ron Roeill
  Second Circuit· 2002-06-04· cited 1,331×
• Fred Traguth and Otto Handtke, Individually and Doing Business as Dance Motion Press v. D'LeLa Zuck
  Second Circuit· 1983-06-17· cited 1,298×
• Weyant v. Okst
  Second Circuit· 1996-12-03· cited 808×
• William Hayden v. County of Nassau, United States of America and Nassau County Guardians Association, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees
  Second Circuit· 1999-06-09· cited 630×
• Tower v. Glover
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 546×
• Mark B. Pangburn v. James Culbertson, Court Clerk John M. York, Sheriff, & Sheriff's Property Clerk
  Second Circuit· 1999-12-21· cited 536×
• Jackson Leeds v. Jonathan S. Meltz, Anthony Mansfield, Susan Ferraro, Merrick T. Rossein, Unknown John and Jane Does
  Second Circuit· 1996-05-21· cited 517×
• Curiano v. Suozzi
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-10-11· cited 478×
• Colon v. City of New York
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-10-25· cited 465×
• Brian Sheppard v. Leon Beerman, as an Individual and in His Official Capacity as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
  Second Circuit· 1994-03-03· cited 452×
• Louis Batista, Manuel Padin and Felix Padin, Jr. v. Michael Rodriguez, Robert J. Nadrizny and the City of Bridgeport, the City of Bridgeport
  Second Circuit· 1983-03-11· cited 428×
• Teresa Zerilli-Edelglass v. New York City Transit Authority and Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority
  Second Circuit· 2003-07-29· cited 413×
• Zahra v. Town Of Southold
  Second Circuit· 1995-02-21· cited 361×