Samuel Perez v. By the Rockies, LLC, and Duane Layton

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• applying Ala- bama’s survivorship statute to determine whether a section 1983 excessive-force claim survived the injured party’s death
• “when a constitutional violation actually causes the injured party’s death, a § 1983 claim can be asserted through the Alabama wrongful death statute, Ala. Code § 6–5–410.”
• absent an inconsistency between the state law and federal law, the court cannot “craft a highly specific federal common law rule of survivorship that applies to the unique facts of this case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).