Kraft v. City of New York

How courts have described this case

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

• granting defendants summary judgment on malicious abuse of process claim because a “plaintiff’s mere reliance on his conclusory allegations” is insufficient
• granting summary judgment where plaintiff did not adduce evidence supporting his allegations that doctors admitted and confined him for “financial gain, thereby increasing their job security”
• “The plaintiff bears the burden of producing competent evidence, typically in the form of expert testimony, regarding applicable medical standards and the defendants’ alleged failure to meet those standards.”
• “Because I dismiss plaintiffs state law claims on the merits, I do not reach the [defendant’s] argument that dismissal with respect to certain defendants is appropriate.”
• “[W]hile police defendants may owe a general duty to the public, they did not owe any specific duty to [the] plaintiff” when they incorrectly transported him to a mental hospital
• “[W]hile the police defendants may owe a general duty to the public, they did not owe any specific duty to [the] plaintiff” when they transported him to a mental hospital

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).