State v. Defroe

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a policy is “formally approved by an appropriate decisionmaker”
• noting that courts need not credit “unwarranted factual inferences”
• applying clear error standard for prevailing party status under 42 U.S.C. §1988
• $778,000 award not remitted when decedent was beaten horribly by a fellow prisoner and lay in his cell for ten hours before being discovered
• court will not accept conclusions of law or unwarranted inferences cast in the form of factual allegations.
• “[W]e need not accept as true legal conclusions or unwarranted factual inferences.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).