Legal Opinion
Saldivar v. Racine
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 25, 2016No. 15-1448PPublishedCited by 155 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARRON, Circuit Judge.. Elba Saldivar appeals the dismissal of her -federal civil rights and state law negligence claims against the City of Fall River, Massachusetts, and Fall River Police Chief Daniel Racine. The District Court dismissed those claims pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim. We affirm.
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The allegations set forth in Saldi-var’s complaint 1 are very disturbing. As we are reviewing a dismissal for failure to state a claim, we accept the complaint’s factual allegations as true and draw all reasonable inferences' from those facts in favor…
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