Paulone v. City of Frederick

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that, under Maryland law, “counties enjoy governmental immunity from tort liability with respect to ‘nonconstitutional torts based on activity categorized as governmental.’” (cleaned up)
• holding State, not county, was proper defendant where sheriff was alleged to have operated jail in violation of Americans with Disabilities Act
• “Although the Fourth Circuit has not specifically considered whether nominal damages are available in a claim under the ADA, at least one other circuit has held that nominal damages are available under that statute.”
• discussing the equivalence of \reasonable accommodations\ and \reasonable modifications\
• adopting deliberate indifference standard as applied in Proctor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).