Jines v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a supervisor is not liable under § 1983 unless an “affirmative link” exists between the constitutional deprivation and the supervisor’s personal participation
• stating that there must be an affirmative link between the constitutional deprivation and either the supervisor’s personal participation, his exercise of control or direction, or his failure to supervise
• holding evidence of a police chief’s failure to discipline arresting officers for their use of excessive force in a single instance to be inadequate to support a finding of an affirmative link between the actions of the arresting officers and the police chief
• the plaintiff must prove the single incident was “caused by an existing, unconstitutional municipal policy, which policy can be attributed to a municipal policymaker”
• “[W]e cannot hold that the failure of a police department to discipline in a specific instance is an adequate basis for municipal liability under Monell.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).