Evans v. Avery

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a city could not be liable in a civil rights action based on a car accident absent a constitutional violation by the involved officers
• finding that an underlying constitutional violation is a prerequisite to analyzing claim against city
• following Heller in the context of a liability claim on a theory of deliberate indifference
• describing facts of police pursuit cases in which officers’ behavior found not to shock the conscience
• affirming dismissal of 1983 substantive-due-process claim against City where its agents were found not to have violated plaintiff's constitutional rights
• affirming dismissal of 1983 substantive-due-process claim against City where its agents were found not to have violated plaintiff's constitutional rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).