Waybright v. Frederick County, MD

How courts have described this case

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

• “[M]unicipalities cannot be liable under § 1983 without some predicate constitutional injury at the hands of the individual state officer . . . .” (internal quotation marks and alteration omitted)
• “[S]upervisors and municipalities cannot be held liable under § 1983without some predicate ‘constitutional injury at the hands of the individual [state] officer.’”
• supervisors “cannot be liable under § 1983 without some predicate ‘constitutional injury at the hands of official [state] officer,’ at least in suits for damages.”
• “As DeShaney indicates and our case law specifies, a “special relationship” is all but synonymous with a custodial relationship.”
• “As DeShaney indicates and our case law specifies, a ‘special relationship’ is all but synonymous with a custodial relationship.”
• “As DeShaney indicates and our case law specifies, a “special relationship” is all but synonymous with a custodial relationship.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).