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Gibson v. County of Washoe, Nevada

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Overruled in part
Court
Ninth Circuit
Citation
290 F.3d 1175
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
163 of 163
Citing cases (total)
1,015
Treatment dates
2016
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. All 163 flagged citations for Gibson v. County of Washoe, Nevada have been read, with the one confirmed treatment listed below. The other opinions applied unaffected Gibson rules positively or copied history parentheticals reporting Castro v. County of Los Angeles's act.
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Direct review of the operative en banc Castro opinion confirms that it displaced any subjective municipal-deliberate-indifference rule in Gibson.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

1,015 later cases cite Gibson v. County of Washoe, Nevada; 163 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in Part

  • The en banc Ninth Circuit overruled Gibson to the extent it suggested a subjective deliberate-indifference standard for municipal liability, holding that the governing standard is objective.

    Castro v. County of Los Angeles · Ninth Circuit (en banc) · filed

    We, too, have recognized that an objective standard applies. Gibson v. County of Washoe, 290 F.3d 1175, 1195 (9th Cir. 2002). To the extent that Gibson or our other cases suggest otherwise, we now overrule those holdings.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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