Mary Tatum v. Steven Moody

How courts have described this case

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

• distinguishing “conduct that either consciously or through complete indifference disregards the risk of an unjustified deprivation of liberty”
• finding twenty-seven months of incarceration “sufficiently lengthy to trigger the narrow due process right at issue here.”
• noting examples of circumstances where 6 “[d]eliberation is impractical” include “chasing a fleeing suspect or responding to gunfire in 7 crowded public spaces”
• finding constitutional violation where officers affirmatively misrepresented facts to prosecutors and defense counsel, resulting in two year detention for plaintiff
• declining to address an element of qualified immunity defendants failed to argue
• “Under § 1983, ‘a person is responsible for the natural consequences of his actions.’” (simplified)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).