Vessels v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that “[t]o consciously misstate the facts under such circumstances must be for the purpose of inducing action by the police”
• “[s]um-mary judgment is a valuable tool; it facilitates just, speedy and inexpensive determination” of lawsuits
• “The trial court‟s independent review of the record mandated by the Kurth-Spellman line of cases was never intended to require the court to construct a party‟s legal theories for him or make a tactical judgment as to which factual issues in the record to assert.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).