Marshall v. Columbia Lea Regional Hospital

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a statistical comparison “requires a reliable measure of the demographics of the relevant population”
• explaining that “violations of Miranda rights do not subject police officers to liability under § 1983” (citing Bennett v. Passic, 545 F.2d 1260, 1263 (10th Cir. 1976))
• noting that most selective law enforcement claims are “based on statistical comparisons between the number of black or other minority Americans stopped or arrested and their percentage in some measure of the relevant population”
• noting that most selective law enforcement claims are “based on statistical comparisons between the number of black or other minority Americans -7- stopped or arrested and their percentage in some measure of the relevant population”
• granting qualified immunity where nurse conducted blood test \at behest of police officers\ who \signed the consent form\
• suggesting evidence of officer’s prior record of racially selective stops and arrests could demonstrate discriminatory effect

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).