Meier v. Keller

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• holding that defendants waived argument that evidence of theirfinancial status is a prerequisite to punitive damages because they failed to present the argument \with sufficient specificity to alert the district court\
• holding that a police commissioner was a policymaker for City of Philadelphia
• noting that, to state an equal protection claim, a plaintiff must allege that she was treated differently from those similarly situated and that this different treatment was the result of intentional discrimination based on her membership in a protected group
• explaining a plaintiff “must demonstrate that they received different treatment from that received by other individuals similarly situated”
• holding mid-level officers do not have final, unreviewable authority
• upholding $133,333.35 punitive damages award against defendant police inspector for his deliberate “refus[al] to intercede in any way” to address allegations of sex discrimination he acknowledged were a “problem”

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