Wells v. County of Valencia

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that denial of federal rights by a state violates Supremacy Clause
• distinguishing tortious conduct under TCA and deprivation of rights secured by the Federal Constitution for Section 1983 purposes
• “[n]ot all tortuous conduct subject to liability under state law amounts to “cruel and unusual punishment” in violation of [the Eighth Amendment].”
• legislature is presumed to have enacted a statute within the bounds of the constitution
• legislation restricting a party’s common-law right to sue for negligence is strictly construed
• legislation restricting a party's common-law right to sue for negligence is strictly construed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).