Godby v. Montgomery County Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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• holding that § 1983 claims “against officers in their official capacity are ‘functionally equivalent’ to claims against the entity that they represent” and applying it to the superintendent, principal, and teachers
• dismissing official capacity claims against school superintendent, principal, and teacher as redundant
• applying Restatement formulation of false light and observing, in dicta, that claim could fail because “Plaintiffs are asking this court to punish someone for offering their version of an event, when 35 it was the Plaintiffs who made the event public in the first place.”
• “First, the Defendants must show that they are performing an act within their discretionary authority.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).