Kennedy Ex Rel. B.D.K. v. Town of Billerica

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “mere emotional responses including anger, sadness, anxiety, and distress . . . are not often legally compensable”
• explaining that a municipality can only be liable for “identifiable constitutional violations attributable to official municipal policy”
• explaining that, under Massachusetts law, a municipality is liable for supervisory negligence only when it fails to prevent torts “committed by individual employees ”
• holding the defendants were entitled to judgment as a matter of law where the minor arrestee feared going to court, was generally nervous and afraid of police sirens, and had occasional nightmares causing sweating and a racing pulse
• summarizing case 40 in parenthetical that found sufficient severity where the plaintiff had evidence “of severe depression, suicidal thoughts, and loss of sleep for more than a month”
• affirming the dismissal of loss of consortium claims predicated on time-barred personal injuries to the plaintiffs’ parents

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