Belsito Communications, Inc. v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.3d 13 · 2016
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Anderson v. Creighton · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Pearson v. Callahan
Most-quoted passages
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“a fancy way of saying 'there is an emergency or other urgent need.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[m]ere negligence will not suffice: the supervisor's conduct must evince 'reckless or callous indifference 9 A brief aside: as will become apparent, because we can resolve the appellate contentions on other requisite components of the global legal claims advanced by Justiniano, we really don't need to determine whether Walker's conduct constituted a violation of Justiniano's constitutional rights. This is true later, too, when we tackle the Walker-summary-judgment issue. We take this approach not only because when "it is not necessary to decide more, it is necessary not to decide more,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Justiniano v. Walker“Qualified immunity protects an officer from suit when a reasonable decision in the line of duty ends up being a bad guess -- in other words, it shields from liability 'all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Justiniano v. Walker
How this case has been treated — in progress
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