Cozzo v. Tangipahoa Parish Council-President Government

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Congress did not abrogate states’ Eleventh Amendment immunity in enacting Section 1983
• ruling that absolute immunity is an affirmative defense that is forfeited if not pleaded
• explaining that a suit against a sheriff in his official capacity is considered a suit against a political subdivision
• noting that a sheriffs duties are “generally performed only within a single parish”
• stating that to reverse for plain error in civil jury instructions, the court “must find an obviously incorrect statement of law that was probably responsible for an incorrect verdict, leading to substantial injustice”
• stating that supervisory officials are not subject to respondeat superior liability under § 1983

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).