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Second Circuit· 6/5/2000

Charles W. v. Maul

Citations

  • 214 F.3d 350
  • 2000 WL 713905

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the defendants did not violate the plaintiff’s due process rights when they confined him for up to 72 hours to evaluate him and determine whether to initiate civil commitment proceedings
  • “[A] defendant is entitled to the shield of qualified immunity if the allegations of the complaint fail to state a claim that his conduct violated ‘clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.’ ”
  • “State court decisions . . . are relevant and often persuasive.”

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Judges: Cardamone, Jacobs, McMahon

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