Singleton v. Cannizzaro
| Docket Number | 19-30197 |
| Decision Date | 21 April 2020 |
Plaintiffs allege that for years, prosecutors at the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office, under the direction of District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, used fake "subpoenas" to pressure crime victims and witnesses to meet with them. The Fifth Circuit held that (1) at this early, motion to dismiss stage, the individual defendants are not entitled to absolute immunity for plaintiffs' subpoena-related state-law claims and (2) the court lacked jurisdiction to consider the merits of plaintiffs'...
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36 cases
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Spec's Family Partners, Ltd. v. Nettles
...734 (5th Cir. 2020). "In determining immunity, we accept the allegations of the plaintiffs’ complaint as true." Singleton v. Cannizzaro , 956 F.3d 773, 779 (5th Cir. 2020) (cleaned up). We review the district court's decision not to exercise supplemental jurisdiction for abuse of discretion......
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Wearry v. Foster
...from denials of absolute prosecutorial immunity involving federal and Louisiana state law claims. See, e.g., Singleton v. Cannizzaro , 956 F.3d 773 (5th Cir. 2020). We review a district court's denial of a Rule 12(c) motion for judgment on the pleadings de novo. Johnson v. Johnson , 385 F.3......
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Morgan v. Chapman
...actor. See Beck , 204 F.3d at 634. The question is whether the person was performing an investigative function. Singleton v. Cannizzaro , 956 F.3d 773, 780 (5th Cir. 2020). Where a person acts as a detective, "searching for the clues and corroboration that might give him probable cause to r......
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Wooten v. Roach
...Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1), we accept as true the following allegations in Wooten's operative complaint. See Singleton v. Cannizzaro , 956 F.3d 773, 779 (5th Cir. 2020).In March 2008, Wooten defeated Judge Charles Sandoval in the Republican primary election for a seat on the 380th Dis......
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Prisoners' Rights
...probable cause determination, and personally attesting to “truth of averments in a statement of probable cause”); Singleton v. Cannizzaro, 956 F.3d 773, 784 (5th Cir. 2020) (prosecutor not absolutely immune when using fake subpoenas to purposefully work outside judicial process); Rieves v. ......