Matter of Rochester Inst. of Tech. v. New York State Div. of Human Rights

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• holding that Section 1983 claims could proceed against certain individual defendants “as long as each plaintiff alleged an unconstitutional act committed by each particular defendant that falls within the three-year statutory period”
• holding that Section 1983 claims could proceed against certain individual defendants “as long as each plaintiff alleged an unconstitutional act committed by each particular defendant that falls within the three-year statutory period”
• holding that “tolerant awareness” of constitutional violations can give rise to Monell liability
• stating that the continuing violation doctrine does not apply to “discrete unlawful acts,” even if those discrete unlawful acts are part of “serial violations” (citing Morgan, 536 U.S. at 114–15)
• stating that the continuing violation doctrine does not apply to “discrete unlawful acts,” even if those discrete unlawful acts are part of “serial violations” (citing Morgan, 536 U.S. at 114–15)
• explaining that support for municipal liability could be found in “evidence regarding the severity and scope” of the individual employee’s misconduct combined with evidence of the awareness of that misconduct by other employees

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).