Bethesda Lutheran Homes and Services, Inc. v. Joseph Leean

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a plaintiff's injury derives from the state law, not local policy, when a municipality was legally compelled to act
• stating that “the position of this circuit” is that a county “cannot be held liable under section 1983 for acts that it did under the command of state or federal law”
• \[T]he state of mind of local officials who enforce or comply with state or federal regulations is immaterial to whether the local government is violating the Constitution if the local officials could not act otherwise without violating state or federal law.\
• “[T]he state of mind of local officials who enforce or comply with state or federal regulations is immaterial to whether the local government is violating the Constitution if the local officials could not act otherwise without violating state or federal law.”
• “[T]he state of mind of local officials who enforce or comply with state … regulations is immaterial to whether the local government is violating the Constitution if the local officials could not act otherwise without violating state … law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).