Gressett v. Florida

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a § 1983 plaintiff's testimony alone may be independently sufficient to raise a genuine issue of material fact”
• holding that a plaintiff’s testimony, if not “wholly improbable,” can be “independently sufficient to raise a genuine issue of material fact”
• holding that Monell claim was properly brought against City of New York for actions of county prosecutors where plaintiff had alleged two relevant policies, an “information barrier” and a “failure to discipline summation misconduct”
• noting that “a § 1983 plaintiff’s testimony alone may be independently sufficient to raise a genuine issue of material fact”
• observing that “[t]he areas of improvement are too many” and “improvement [to] student discipline is difficult to measure”
• holding “the district attorney is a municipal policymaker [under Monell] because in making decisions other than whether to prosecute the district attorney acts as the manager of the district attorney’s office”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).