Ayanna Blue v. District of Columbia Public

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a plaintiff failed to sufficiently allege a failure-to-fire municipal liability claim where plaintiffs allegations relied solely on the “alleged misbehavior of only one municipal employee”
• concluding that plaintiff failed to meet actual knowledge standard because Supreme Court precedent requires that the harassment be known, and plaintiff failed to allege that anyone knew the harassment was occurring
• explaining that it “is not [the court’s] role” to “try to surmise which theory of municipal liability has the strongest support” where a “plaintiff fails to identify the type of municipal policy at issue”
• pleading Monell liability based on failure to reprimand requires allegations of “failure] to respond to improper actions by numerous municipal officials”
• affirming dismissal of Monell claim where plaintiff pled that municipality’s “custom, policy or practice” lacked the specificity required for the Court to assess the claim’s plausibility
• “Although Blue insists that she has established all three elements, we need address only the second, actual notice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).