Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.

How courts have described this case

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• holding a 18 local government may be held liable under § 1983 only for constitutional injuries inflicted 19 by edicts or acts that may be fairly said to represent official policy or custom
• “Congress did not intend § 1983 15 liability to attach where . . . causation [is] absent.”
• “Congress did not intend § 1983 2 liability to attach where . . . causation [is] absent.”
• “Congress did not intend § 1983 6 liability to attach where . . . causation [is] absent.”
• “Congress did not intend § 1983 11 liability to attach where . . . causation [is] absent.”
• unwritten policy or custom must be so “persistent and widespread” that it constitutes a “permanent and well settled” practice

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