Kernwood Manufacturing Corp. v. Home Indemnity Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “The Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause does not apply to municipalities, but only to federal actors.”
• “The Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause does not apply to municipalities, but only to federal actors.”
• “The Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause does not apply to municipalities, but only to federal actors.”
• “[W]e liberally construe complaints even where pro se plaintiffs do not reference any source of law.” (cleaned up) (quoting Booker v. S.C. Dep’t of Corr., 855 F.3d 533, 540 n.4 (4th Cir. 2017))
• “Monell permits suits against a municipality for a federal constitutional deprivation only when the municipality undertook the allegedly unconstitutional action pursuant to an official policy or custom.”
• “Monell permits suits against a municipality for a federal constitutional deprivation only when the municipality undertook the allegedly unconstitutional action pursuant to an ‘official policy’ or ‘custom.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).