Monsour Medical Center v. Commonwealth, Department of Public Welfare

How courts have described this case

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

• “a municipality cannot be liable under Monell when there is no underlying constitutional violation by a municipal employee”
• state-created danger exception “applies only to situations in which the harm is perpetrated by private actors” (emphasis added)
• same when an officer shot an unarmed arrestee who pretended to have a gun under his shirt, tried to escape, and ignored repeated commands to put his hands up
• “Without any federal claims over which it had original jurisdiction, the district court’s decision not to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the pendent state law claims was not an abuse of discretion.”
• “Without any federal claims over which it had original jurisdiction, the district court’s decision not to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the pendent state law claims was not an abuse of discretion.”
• “Without any federal claims over which it had original jurisdiction, the district court’s decision not to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the pendent state law claims was not an abuse of discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).