Horn v. City of Seat Pleasant, Md.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that officer did not have authority to arrest outside of his jurisdiction a private citizen for speeding 75 mph in a 55 mph zone
• finding officer’s actions unreasonable given that he did not effectuate a valid citizen’s arrest
• “A local governmental entity cannot be held liable for a violation of § 1983 based on the theory of respondeat superior. Instead, a plaintiff must allege that the local governmental entity is directly liable because of an official policy, practice or custom.”
• “A local governmental entity cannot be held liable for a violation of § 1983 based on the theory of respondeat superior. Instead, a plaintiff must allege that the local governmental entity is directly liable because of an official policy, practice or custom.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).