David Gordon, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of Adam Gordon v. Dennis Degelmann

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an officer’s failure to comply with the Illinois Forcible Entry and Detainer Act “does not matter” for purposes of a Fourth Amendment claim
• holding that an officer’s failure to comply with the Illinois Forcible Entry and Detainer Act “does not matter” for purposes of a Fourth Amendment claim
• ruling that “[t]here is no priority among inconsistent verdicts . . .[and] the proper thing to do is to hold a new trial with respect to all affected parties”
• tendering one’s own instruction does not satisfy Rule 51; Rule 51 requires the parties to draw the court’s attention to problems so that they may be corrected before the jury begins deliberations
• “The Constitution does not require all public employees to intercede, outside their own bureaucratic hierarchies, on behalf of persons whose rights are in jeopardy.”
• “[F]ederal courts assess constitutional claims by assuming that the state wants its employees to behave just as they did and asking whether federal rules permit the state to achieve this objective.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).