· 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
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- 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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