Emmanuel Mervilus v. Union County

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How courts have described this case

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• noting that “the due process protection against criminal investigators’ fabrication of inculpatory evidence against a defendant . . . ha[s] long been recognized by the Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal,” collecting cases
• permitting plaintiff to proceed on a fabrication of evidence claim against detective who allegedly performed unreliable polygraph examination and also testified falsely about it at trial
• “[Plaintiff] may ultimately prevail on his failure to train and supervise theory against Union County even if [the individual officer defendant] avoids liability.”
• a county “can be heid liable under Monell, even when its officers are not”; and “it is possible for the Monell defendant to cause constitutional harm without any individual defendant violating the plaintiff’s rights”

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Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• United States v. Agurs
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-24· cited 6,537×
• Mooney v. Holohan
  Supreme Court· 1935-01-21· cited 1,837×
• Devereaux v. Abbey
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-09-05· cited 1,256×
• Medina v. California
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-22· cited 1,180×
• Estate of Adriano Roman, Jr. v. City of Newark
  Third Circuit· 2019-01-29· cited 699×
• Thomas v. Cook County Sheriff's Department
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-05-03· cited 671×
• Byron Halsey v. Frank Pfeiffer
  Third Circuit· 2014-04-24· cited 583×
• Pyle v. Kansas
  Supreme Court· 1942-12-07· cited 558×
• Sherwood v. Mulvihill
  Third Circuit· 1997-01-15· cited 352×
• Randy Mulholland v. Government County of Berks
  Third Circuit· 2013-01-28· cited 319×
• Zaher Zahrey v. Martin E. Coffey
  Second Circuit· 2000-07-20· cited 286×
• Estate Robert Smith v. Marasco
  Third Circuit· 2003-01-29· cited 278×
• Michele Black v. County of Montgomery
  Third Circuit· 2016-09-16· cited 184×
• Fagan v. City of Vineland
  Third Circuit· 1994-04-29· cited 174×
• Fairley v. Luman
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-02-15· cited 146×
• Roger D. Speer v. City of Wynne, Arkansas, Roger D. Speer v. Danny Glover, Individually and as Deputy Prosecuting Attorney
  Eighth Circuit· 2002-01-14· cited 108×
• United States of America Ex Rel. James H. Moore v. George Koelzer
  Third Circuit· 1972-03-27· cited 92×
• State v. McDavitt
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1972-12-18· cited 88×

Other cases named Emmanuel Mervilus v. Union County

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• Emmanuel Mervilus v. Union County
  Third Circuit· 2023-07-13