Legal Opinion
Gilbert v. Bos. Police Dep't
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided January 23, 2019No. 17-P-1507Published
1Opinion of the Court
The plaintiff appeals from the dismissal of her amended complaint, which asserts violation of her substantive due process rights.3 The pro se amended complaint is not a model of clarity, but we read it generously to allege that the defendants failed to investigate fully certain allegations concerning the plaintiff, her daughter, and one Chimere Jones and her daughter, and that the defendants included misinformation in certain police reports. Read liberally, the amended complaint appears to allege that the two daughters have had one or more physical altercations, in which the plaintiff…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Daniels v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Parratt v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- County of Sacramento v. LewisSupreme Court of the United States · 1998
- Baker v. McCollanSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Henry H. Amsden v. Thomas F. Moran, Etc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1990
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