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· 9/12/1947

Akerly v. New York Cent. R.

Citations

  • 73 F. Supp. 903
  • 1947 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2216

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • dismissing plaintiff’s complaint because it failed to “allege the requisite causal link” between the policies and the injury, making the failure-to-train claim inadequate
  • “A supervisor cannot be held liable absent a constitutional violation by the people she supervised.”
  • “Supervisory officials are not held lable for the constitutional injuries of their subordinates under a theory of respondeat superior.’

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Judges: Jones

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