Mann v. Darden

How courts have described this case

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• “[P]laintiffs can use fictitious names for real defendants when it appears that . . . discovery will uncover the defendant’s actual name.”
• “Plaintiff can use fictitious names for real defendants when it appears that . . . discovery will uncover the defendant’s actual name.”
• “[Plaintiff’s] ignorance of the proper defendants, however, does not qualify as a ‘mistake.’”
• “When Mann filed this suit, she also filed a motion seeking early discovery for the purpose of uncovering the actual names of the officers who participated in her tasing. That motion was granted on August 29, 2007.”
• “Even if, however, Darden were properly acting . . . in his capacity as a community caretaker . . . Darden would not be entitled to . . . immunity for the repeated use of his taser against Mann as she lay in her hospital bed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).