Gatlin Ex Rel. Gatlin v. Green.U.S. District Court FAILURE TO TRAIN Gatlin Ex Rel ex rel. conj. abbreviation for Latin ex relatione, meaning "upon being related" or "upon information," used in the title of a legal proceeding filed by a state attorney general (or the federal Department of Justice) on behalf of the government, on the instigation of . Gatlin v. Green, 227 F.Supp.2d 1064 (D.Minn. 2002). The estate of a cooperating witness in a murder investigation brought civil rights, civil rights conspiracy, and state law claims against a police officer and city. The witness had been murdered after police released a prisoner's letter that identified the witness. The district court granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment motion for summary judgment n. a written request for a judgment in the moving party's favor before a lawsuit goes to trial and based on recorded (testimony outside court) affidavits (or declarations under penalty of perjury), depositions, admissions of fact, answers . The court found that there was no clearly established right at the time of the murder, that required police or jail officers to embargo or detain de·tain tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains 1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard. 2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: threatening prison mail or to protect cooperating confidential informants from retaliatory re·tal·i·ate v. re·tal·i·at·ed, re·tal·i·at·ing, re·tal·i·ates v.intr. To return like for like, especially evil for evil. v.tr. To pay back (an injury) in kind. violence. The court noted that the officer who released the prisoner's letter repeatedly warned the informant informant Historian Medtalk A person who provides a medical history and took steps to help the informant leave the state and to protect him. The court found that the city's failure to provide more training to police officers in prisoner-rights law or the regulation of jail correspondence, was inadequate to support civil rights liability for the city under a failure-to-train theory. (Carver County Jail, Minnesota) |
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