Gonsalves v. City of New Bedford

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that each defendant either participated in the underlying misconduct or knew a colleague that did so
• stating that cover-up is only actionable if a defendant succeeds in preventing a claimant from discovering or proving a violation of his constitutional rights.
• “Section 1983 provides a remedy for such constitutional violations if the defendants’ actions were [causally] connected to a plaintiffs failure to succeed in her lawsuit.”
• where one defendant’s use of unreasonable force was proximate cause of decedent’s death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).