McAllister v. New York City Police Department

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• denying plaintiff's discovery request where the summary judgment motion came after the conclusion of discovery and plaintiff had ample time to complete discovery
• granting summary judgment to defendants on the policy or custom issue because plaintiff “points only to his own alleged beating, false arrest and denial of medical treatment and the Police Department’s alleged conspirational ‘cover up’ as evidence of a New York City policy”
• “Newspaper articles are hearsay . . . and . . . are not admissible evidence .”
• “Newspaper articles are hearsay . . . and therefore are not admissible evidence of [NYPD] policy or custom . . . .”
• “It is well established that a municipality may not be held liable under § 1983 for alleged unconstitutional actions by its employees below the policemaking level solely upon the basis of respondeat superior.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).