Topic: in an action under 1983, a municipality...cannot be liable… · Go Syfert
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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 86 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from A.H. v. St. Louis County, Missouri.

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1 A.H. v. St. Louis County, Missouri Anchor
ca8 · 2018
green “in an action under 1983, a municipality...cannot be liable on a respondeat superior theory” 50
2 Russell v. Hennepin County
ca8 · 2005
green “a policy is a deliberate choice to follow a course of action made from among various alternatives by the official or officials responsible...for establishing final policy with respect to the subject matter in question” 36

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