Mendoza v. City of Rome

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that an award for punitive damages was appropriate despite the plaintiff’s failure to demand punitive damages because “[t]he defendant consented to that issue being tried”
• “fact that ... claims were filed does not constitute evidence of violation of Constitutional rights”
• “[I]t is . . . clear that any claim for punitive damages must be raised in the pleadings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).