Laurel C. Thomas v. Walter Shipka, in His Capacity as Clerk of the Parma Municipal Court

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “in cases where a plaintiff states a constitutional claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, that statute is the exclusive remedy for the alleged constitutional violations”
• concluding “that it is unnecessary and needlessly redundant to imply a cause of action arising directly under the Constitution where Congress has already provided a statutory remedy of equal effectiveness through which the plaintiff could have vindicated [his] constitutional rights”
• suggesting section 1983 is the exclusive remedy for constitutional claims after Monell
• § 1983 provides exclusive remedy for constitutional claims brought against state and local officials and local units of government
• “§ 1983 is the exclusive means for a party to recover for constitutional violations allegedly committed by government personnel”
• “The Supreme Court has never recognized a cause of action arising directly under the Constitution in a case where § 1983 was available as a remedy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).