Massey v. Prince George's County

OPINION

MESSITTE, District Judge.

I

The Court takes this occasion to address the matter of counsel’s responsibility for bringing legal authority to its attention in appropriate fashion.

What the Court sua sponte decides is to reverse its earlier decision dismissing certain causes of action in this case and to keep the matter in federal court; the manner in which this reversal has come about, however, merits discussion in its own right.

II

Plaintiff Willie Massey alleges that in the early morning hours of November 4, 1992 he was sleeping in a vacant or abandoned building in Cheverly, Maryland. He…