Emmanuel D. Patterson v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III Charles P. Hemandy Harold J. Smith N. Desantos

How courts have described this case

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

• “It is clear that where there has been a denial of due process, the victim is entitled at least to nominal damages.”
• “It is clear that where there has been a denial of due process, the victim is entitled at least to nominal damages”
• “even where a denial of due process has been followed by a liberty deprivation, unless the deprivation was caused by the violation the plaintiff is limited to nominal damages.”
• “[E]ven where a denial of due process has been followed by a liberty deprivation, unless the deprivation was caused by the violation the plaintiff is limited to nominal damages.”
• “[E]ven where a denial of due process has been followed by a liberty deprivation, unless the deprivation was caused by the violation the plaintiff is limited to nominal damages.”
• “an impartial decisionmaker is one who, inter alia, does not prejudge the evidence and who cannot say . . . how he would assess evidence he has not yet seen”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).