Louis Kujawski v. Board of Commissioners of Bartholomew County, Indiana, and Bartholomew County Community Corrections Department

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• noting the “well-established principle that the mere unreviewed discretion to make hiring and firing decisions does not amount to policymaking authority”
• finding municipal liability where the policymaking authority had been delegated “as a matter of custom”
• finding genuine factual dispute as to whether board delegated policymaking authority over community corrections matters to the county’s chief probations officer
• reasoning that “the mere unreviewed discretion to make hiring and firing decisions does not amount to policymaking authority,” but rather, “[t]here must be a delegation of authority to set policy for hiring and firing, not a delegation of only the final authority to hire and fire”
• noting evidence “that the Board never reviewed [the alleged policymaker's] personnel decisions, that [the alleged policymaker] was 'in charge’ of the department, [and] that [the alleged policymaker] called ... meetings and set employment policies for the ... department”
• letting a sub-issue within the policymaker inquiry go to a jury

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