Ospina v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a governmental entity is not liable under § 1983 when there has been no underlying constitutional violation by an employee
• holding that a claim against a public servant in his official capacity is effectively a claim against the entity that he represents such that a complaint that fails state a claim against the entity also fails to state a claim against the servant in his official capacity
• observing, without deciding, that the rationale of Heller appears relevant to individual capacity claims -- including failure to intervene -- asserted against a non-actor defendant
• tasing suspect three times who actively resisted officers’ attempts to handcuff him was not excessive force
• discussing deliberate indifference standard in the context of failure-to-adopt policy claims
• “Rule 4(a)(5) permits the district court’s approval of a timely motion to extend to validate a prior notice of appeal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).