Butera v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that even where the plaintiffs may have shown official acceptance of wrongdoing, the plaintiffs failed to establish extraordinary circumstances because they did not show that the District of Columbia policymakers “intentionally adopted an unconstitutional policy”
• dismissing suit by estate of slain undercover informant because the informant’s “constitutional right to protection by the District of Columbia from third-party violence was not clearly established”
• vacating a punitive damages award against the District because there was no evidence of an unconstitutional policy
• “[A] parent does not have a constitutionally-protected liberty interest in the companionship of a child who is past minority and independent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).