Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that when the question of whether a position involves policymaking is \sufficiently uncertain\ it is properly left to the jury
• “[f]ailure to take corrective action cannot in and of itself violate section 1983. Otherwise the action of an inferior officer would automatically be attributed up the line to his highest superi- or.”
• punitive damages “reserved for cases where the wrongfulness of the defendant’s conduct is conspicuous, implying that its wrongfulness is apparent to the person who engages in it, and not just to a lawyer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).