· 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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