Fulson v. City of Columbus

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a “failure on the part of police to investigate and prosecute criminal offenders on the basis of [a victim’s] race may state an equal protection claim under § 1983.”
• “[A] private citizen lacks a judicially cognizable interest in the prosecution or nonprosecution of another.”
• “[T]he nonmoving party has an affirmative duty to direct the court’s attention to those specific portions of the record upon which it seeks to rely to create a genuine issue of material fact.”
• “A public official charged with the duty to investigate or prosecute a crime does not owe that duty to any one member of the public, and thus no one member of the public has a right to compel a public official to act.”
• “A public official charged with the duty to investigate or prosecute a crime does not owe that duty to any one member of the public, and thus no one member of the public has a right to compel a public official to act.”
• “A public official charged with the duty to investigate or prosecute a crime does not owe that duty to any one member of the public, and thus no one member of the public has a right to compel a public official to act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).