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· 4/28/1997

Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown

Citations

  • 520 U.S. 397
  • 117 S. Ct. 1382
  • 137 L. Ed. 2d 626
  • 1997 U.S. LEXIS 2793
  • 65 U.S.L.W. 4286
  • 10 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 405
  • 12 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 1217
  • 97 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 3033
  • 97 Daily Journal DAR 5311

How courts have described this case

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

  • discussing a city council’s censure and discharge of an employee and cancellation of a performance license due to the content of the performance
  • describing Owen v. City of Independence, 445 U.S. 622, 100 S.Ct. 1398, 63 L.Ed.2d 673 (1980), and Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc., 453 U.S. 247, 101 S.Ct. 2748, 69 L.Ed.2d 616 (1981
  • a municipality may not be held vicariously liable for the acts 18 of its employees
  • \We have consistently refused to hold municipalities liable under a theory of respondeat superior.\

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Judges: O'Connor, Souter, Stevens, Breyer, Ginsburg

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