Hunter v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that plaintiff failed to state custom basis for municipal liability for arrests without probable cause where “[he] was not arrested for the offense examined in the report on which he relies”
• holding that a plaintiff failed to establish municipal liability claim where the plaintiff relied on a report “issued nearly four years prior” to the plaintiff’s arrest and based on data gathered between 7 to 11 years before the plaintiff’s arrest
• noting that the plaintiff did not provide “even a study indicating a substantial portion of misdemeanor arrests in the District in 2007 lacked probable cause”
• explaining that individual officers need not be named “at all[] in order for municipal liability to attach” as long as “the underlying constitutional violation” is proven
• “Adding the word ‘duty’ and reiterating the allegations of intentional conduct are insufficient to plead negligence[-]based claims.”
• finding no custom of “arresting citizens without probable cause” where the plaintiff was arrested for an open container of alcohol but relied on a four-year-old report examining arrests for a different offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).