District of Columbia v. Carmichael

How courts have described this case

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• holding that in municipal liability case, expert must present an objectively determinable standard of care against which a jury can determine whether the defendants fell below that standard
• requiring expert testimony to establish applicable standards of care in suit by prisoner who was assaulted by fellow prisoners alleging that injuries were caused by District’s failure to control contraband
• “[I]n any negligence action, ‘the plaintiff must establish by competent evidence a standard of care; that the defendant violated that standard; and that such violation proximately caused injury to the plain- tiff.’” (citation modified
• expert “did not single out any particular [ACA] provisions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).