Carew v. Baker

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “the first step in every § 1983 claim” is the plaintiff “initially prov[ing] that he was deprived of a federal right.”
• emphasizing that a municipality can only be held liable for “its own violations”
• explaining that the plaintiff failed to establish a predicate constitutional or legal violation, thus barring the plaintiff from recovering against the municipality for allegations including failure to train, failure to discipline, and perpetuating a \code of silence\
• discussing how this element is met when it is “obvious” that the municipality’s action “would lead to constitutional violations and[] the municipality consciously disregarded those consequences”
• “Nothing in the language of the Due Process Clause itself requires the State to protect the life, liberty, and property of its citizens against invasion by private actors.”
• “[P]rov[ing] that he was deprived of a federal right . . . [is] the first step in every § 1983 claim, including a claim against a municipality under Monell.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).