Legal Opinion
Calvi v. Knox County
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 11, 2006No. 06-1843PublishedCited by 273 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In this civil rights case, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, plaintiff-appellant Morgan Calvi beseeches us to reverse the entry of summary judgment in favor of various county and municipal defendants. 1 In rapid-fire succession, she attacks the constitutionality of summary judgment, the district court’s assessment of the evidence, and the court’s concomitant refusal to consider certain claims on the ground that they were outside the compass of her complaint. Discerning no error, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
The pivotal facts are laid out in considerable detail in the…
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