Jerome R. MacLin v. Deputy Sheriff Paulson

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• mere acquiescence by police chief when he is on notice of constitutional violations is sufficient to trigger liability under section 1983
• mere acquiescence by police chief when he is on notice of constitutional violations is sufficient to trigger liability under section 1983
• Instead of dismissing a pro se complaint for failure to identify certain unnamed defendants, the district court should have ordered their disclosure or permitted plaintiff to obtain their identity through discovery.
• when “party is ignorant of defendants’ true identity, it is unnecessary to name them until their identity can be learned through discovery or through the aid of the trial court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).