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“municipality is almost never liable for an isolated unconstitutional act on the part of an employee”
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Morris v. Dallas County
municipality is almost never liable for an isolated unconstitutional act on the part of an employee
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Thomas v. State
Piotrowski , 237 F.3d at 579-80 & n.22 ; accord Peterson v. City of Fort Worth , 588 F.3d 838 , 849-50 (5th Cir. 2009), cert. denied , 562 U.S. 827 , 131 S.Ct. 66 , 178 L.Ed.2d 22 (2010).
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Veronica Okon v. Harris County Hospital Dist
Thus, the Supreme Court has held that a city would not “automatically be liable under § 1983 if one of its employees happened to apply the policy in an unconstitutional manner, for liability would then rest on respondeat superior." City of Canton v. Harris, 489 U.S. 378, 387 , 109 S.Ct. 1197 , 103 L.Ed.2d 412 (1989); see also Bolton v. City of Dallas, 541 F.3d 545, 549 (5th Cir.2008) ("When an official’s discretionary decisions are constrained by policies not of that official’s making, those policies, rather than the decision-maker’s departure from them, are the act of the municipalit…
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Elvis David Lewis
v.
Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General
v.
Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General
No. 09-913.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Oct 4, 2010.
178 L. Ed. 2d 22
Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied.
Same case below, 325 Fed. Appx. 178.