Beattie v. Madison County School District

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a nonmovant was not diligent, when she had waited “several months” to depose key witnesses
• holding that a superintendent was not a final policymaker because her decision was subject to review by the school board
• holding that “[b]ecause the board oversaw the precise action in question” (the termination decision), the superintendent did not have final policymaking power
• holding that an official is a “final policymaker” only when her decisions are “unreviewable by any other body”
• holding that a school district is not liable when the school board, without knowledge of the alleged retaliatory motive, acted on the recommendation of the superintendent and the principal to terminate an employee
• observing that government officials “cannot be liable independently if they did not make the final decision”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).