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· 12/16/2013

Lockheed Martin Corp. v. Abbott

Citations

  • 134 S. Ct. 826
  • 187 L. Ed. 2d 686
  • 82 U.S.L.W. 3364
  • 571 U.S. 1110
  • 2013 WL 5574520
  • 2013 U.S. LEXIS 9043

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that personal involvement of defendants in the alleged constitutional deprivation is a 37 prerequisite to a finding of liability under § 1983
  • explaining that, while respondeat superior does not apply to § 1983 claims, supervisors are liable where they “participated directly in the alleged constitutional violation” (citation omitted)
  • “In the procedural due-process context, actual damages are based on the compensation for injuries that resulted from the plaintiff’s receipt of deficient process.”
  • “[A] plaintiff must establish a given defendant’s personal involvement in the claimed violation in order to hold that defendant liable in his individual capacity.”
  • liability for constitutional violation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires evidence of individual defendant’s personal involvement in constitutional violation
  • “a plaintiff must establish a given defendant’s personal involvement in the claimed violation in order to hold that defendant liable in his individual capacity”

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