Russo v. Blue Cross of Rhode Island

How courts have described this case

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• holding that two off-duty officers in plain clothes who did not identify themselves acted under color of law during assault because their tone of voice reasonably led plaintiff to believe they were police officers
• holding that two off-duty officers in plain clothes who did not identify themselves acted under color of law during assault because their tone of voice reasonably led plaintiff to believe they were police officers
• holding that off-duty officers not in uniform acted under color of law
• holding that off-duty officers not in uniform acted under color of law
• declining to dismiss state law claims for negligent hiring against the City of New Orleans for the same reasons
• reversing a dismissal of a Louisiana state law negligent hiring claim while affirming dismissal of Monell liability claim because the tests for the two claims were different

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).