Commonwealth v. Provident Savings Life Assurance Society

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• concluding that reasonable officers should have known that they could not tackle, strike, and use pepper spray on a nonresisting person
• dismissing a conspiracy claim as duplicative because plaintiff failed to “allege any additional defendants or facts in the conspiracy claim as compared to the [underlying tort claim]”
• denying summary judgment for the defendant police officer on plaintiff’s class-of-one equal protection claim when the officer issued plaintiff 33 parking tickets over some three months, starting two days after the plaintiff’s arrest
• the defendant was not on his own land where he walked on the street and sidewalk before entering his home
• “[M]erely failing to prevent the unlawful conduct of one party or assisting an unlawful actor does not necessarily constitute a conspiracy.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• officer not present during alleged constitutional violation cannot be held liable for failure to intervene

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).