Mary Quinn v. Monroe County, James L. Roberts, County Administrator, Monroe County, individually and in his official capacity

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• concluding that county administrator was not the final policymaker with respect to county library director’s termination because the county administrator’s termination decision was subject to meaningful administrative review by the Career Service Council
• finding meaningful review where “the Council afforded her a full adversarial and evidentiary hearing” and both parties were represented by counsel
• “Collateral estoppel, i.e., issue preclusion, refers to the effect of a judgment in foreclosing relitigation of a matter that has been litigated and decided.”
• “The preclusive effect applies even where the agency’s fact-finding is not reviewed by a state court.”
• “The ‘decisionmaker’ inquiry addresses who has the power to make official decisions and, thus, be held individually liable.”
• hold- ing that an “official decisionmaker” may be held individually liable if he had the authority “not merely to recommend [the employee]’s termination” but to “effectuate” it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).