Farmer v. Howard

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that \the law shields an officer from liability for false arrest if the officer relies on a fellow officer who vouches for probable cause\
• finding that “evidence supplies an insufficient basis on which a reasonable jury could find that Donnelly was personally involved in the arrest” because “Donnelly did not come into contact with Cruz until after Cruz had been arrested.”
• granting summary judgment for defendant who was not “personally involved in the acts allegedly constituting excessive force”
• dismissing false arrest claim against officer who was present at the scene of the arrest after plaintiff was detained by other officers, but was not personally involved in arrest
• waiting until summary judgment to dismiss claims against unnamed defendants because the record provided “no indication that [the plaintiff] ha[d] made any effort to discover the Doe defendants’ true names” (collecting cases)
• “[C]ourts typically resist dismissing suits against John Doe defendants until the plaintiff has had some opportunity for discovery to learn the identities of responsible officials.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).