McTernan v. City of York, Pa.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that plaintiff failed to “allege conduct by a municipal decisionmaker” in his attempt to assert municipal Section 1983 liability
• noting that to assert a plausible claim, the plaintiff “must identify [the] custom or policy and specify what exactly that custom or policy was”
• noting that plaintiff failed to “allege conduct by a municipal decisionmaker” in his attempt to assert municipal Section 1983 liability
• explaining that to state a municipal custom, the complaint must “specify what exactly that custom or policy was” and demonstrate “knowledge and acquiescence by the decisionmaker”
• applying heightened scrutiny to a targeted and ad hoc “police directive, issued by officers in the field”
• affirming district court’s dismissal of, among other things, the “official capacity suit against Defendants Barth, Brenner, and Whitman” because the “complaint simply paraphrases § 1983”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).