De La O v. Housing Authority of the El Paso

How courts have described this case

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• noting that perfunctory and conclusory assertions will not suffice because “judges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs”
• finding the common areas of public housing facilities are public property and nonpublic forums
• “Judges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs.” (quoting United States v. Dunkel, 927 F.2d 955, 956 (7th Cir.1991))
• “The doctrine of qualified immunity . . . is applicable only to government officials, not municipal entities.”
• “As an arm of local government, not an instrument of the state, [the Housing Authority of City of El Paso, Texas] is not entitled to sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.”
• “Judges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).