Commissioner v. Montague

How courts have described this case

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• distinguishing Huffman because the county employee in McDade was “committ[ing] an act that was related to her official duties”
• distinguishing Huffman because the county employee in McDade acted under pretense of state authority by entering her state passcode into a database of private information
• affirming district court's order granting defendant summary judgment and finding that plaintiff failed to show defendant could have foreseen the injury
• no Monell liability where the plaintiff 25 “failed to demonstrate a ‘direct causal link’ to any municipal policy or custom”
• plaintiff cannot 25 demonstrate the existence of a policy based on a single occurrence of unconstitutional action 26 committed by a non-policymaking employee
• “A plaintiff cannot demonstrate 14 the existence of a municipal policy or custom based solely on a single occurrence of 15 unconstitutional action by a non-policymaking employee.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).