Rogan v. Menino

How courts have described this case

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

• declaring that “there is no constitutional prohibition against organizational schemes that lodge self-investigative powers within a government agency”
• stating that because the lower court made its sua sponte ruling at the final pretrial hearing, “with discovery complete (or nearly so),” the first condition was satisfied
• dismissing personal liability claims pursuant to § 1983 because “the complaint does not allege (or even insinuate) that either [defendants] directly participated in the actions that purportedly violated [plaintiff’s] rights”
• dismissal of complaint founded on conclusory allegation of § 1983 supervisory liability
• “It is axiomatic that the liability of persons sued in their individual capacities under section 1983 must be gauged 3 in terms of their own actions.”
• applying the standard to F.R.A.P. 10(c)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).