Where a college student who was sexually assaulted by another student sued the university after it failed to move her attacker to another living situation until the investigation was complete, summary judgment for the university is affirmed because there was ...

Tagged with: civil rights Deliberate Indifference Student Rape Title IX Claim

Defendant, an off-duty police officer, was working security for a concert attended by plaintiff. Defendant called plaintiff over to him and tried to pull plaintiff over a metal barrier; defendant lost his grip on plaintiff, causing plaintiff to fall to ...

Tagged with: 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil rights excessive force Off-Duty Police Officer

Plaintiff appealed the dismissal of his §1983 complaint pursuant to the applicable statute of limitations. The district court also denied plaintiff leave to amend his complaint, concluding that amendment would be futile. Plaintiff was also denied post-judgment relief. Where the ...

Tagged with: 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil rights Statute Of Limitations

Defendant police officer Joshua Hastings shot and killed 15-year-old Bobby Moore. Plaintiff, Moore’s mother, filed suit against Hastings and his police chief and municipal employer. The district court granted summary judgment to the chief and city; the jury subsequently found ...

Tagged with: 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil rights excessive force Supervisor Liability

Plaintiff appealed the preservice dismissal of her §1983 complaint, which alleged that her constitutional rights were violated in a board of pharmacy disciplinary proceeding. Where plaintiff failed to plead viable claims, the district court did not err by granting preservice ...

Tagged with: 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil rights Licensure Board Disciplinary Proceeding Preservice Dismissal

Plaintiff, an inmate, appealed from the district court’s grant of summary judgment to defendants in plaintiffs’ 42 U.S.C. §1983 action. Where plaintiff failed to raise a cognizable Eighth Amendment claim or any other basis for reversal, his §1983 complaint was ...

Tagged with: 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil rights Inmate summary judgment

Where a city, which was the defendant in a class action alleging constitutional violations arising from the city’s detention of plaintiffs for their inability to pay traffic fines, sought interlocutory review of the denial of its motion to dismiss six ...

Tagged with: civil rights jurisdiction Sovereign Immunity

Where a plaintiff, who claimed a city clerk failed to document her payment of fines leading to her arrest, brought an action against the city employer, any personal immunity of the clerk did not foreclose an action against the city, ...

Tagged with: civil rights immunity Municipal Liability

Plaintiff appealed from the dismissal of his pro se 42 U.S.C. §1983 against defendant, the City of Helena-West Helena city attorney. Where de novo review of plaintiff’s complaint revealed no cognizable §1983 claim, dismissal of the complaint was proper. Judgment ...

Tagged with: 42 U.S.C. §1983 City Attorney civil rights Pro Se Complaint

Where a plaintiff, who argued as a personal representative that the decedent’s death was due to excessive force from officers, challenged the dismissal of a wrongful-death claim that was filed more than four years after the incident, arguing that the ...

Tagged with: civil rights Fraudulent Concealment Statute Of Limitations wrongful death

Where plaintiff brought claims of false arrest, excessive force and denial of medical care against officers, the grant of sovereign immunity to the defendants was proper because the district court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that he failed ...

Tagged with: civil rights Deliberate Indifference Denial Of Medical Care Inmate Action