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· 11/3/1978

Donald L. Cale v. The City of Covington, Virginia

Citations

  • 586 F.2d 311
  • 1978 U.S. App. LEXIS 7962

How courts have described this case

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  • suggesting that im- plying rights of action under the Fourteenth Amendment flouts Congress’s power to create remedies
  • declining to infer Bivens style remedy in part because of congressionally-provided alternative of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit against individual municipal officials
  • declining to infer Bivens style remedy in part because of congressionally-provided alternative of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit against individual municipal officials
  • no remedy implied under the fourteenth amendment even where existence of § 1983 cause of action unclear
  • no Bivens action available against municipalities after Monell
  • no Bivens action available against municipalities after Monell

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Judges: Field, Widener, Hall

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