Dora Martinez v. Bank of America, N.A.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiffs “failed to sufficiently demonstrate a constitutional injury” where police concealed evidence of officer misconduct
• holding that where the actual circumstances surrounding the shooting were revealed publicly within six months of the incident, and plaintiffs were granted access to records of investigation of the incident/cover-up, their constitutional rights “were ultimately preserved”
• holding that where the actual circumstances surrounding the shooting were revealed publicly within six months of the incident, and plaintiffs were granted access to records of investigation of the incident/coverup, their constitutional rights “were ultimately preserved”
• stating that police officers abridge constitutional rights when their obfuscation of important facts about a crime “render[s] hollow the right to seek redress”
• finding no constitutional violation for denial of judicial access where culpable police cover-up delayed by six months plaintiffs nonetheless timely lawsuit, with eventual corrective measures and disclosure providing information vital to plaintiffs case
• “when police officers conceal or obscure important facts about a crime from its victims, rendering hollow the right to seek redress, constitutional rights are undoubtedly abridged”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).