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· 7/30/1996

Nicholas Devito v. Chicago Park District and Personnel Board of the Chicago Park District

Citations

  • 83 F.3d 878

How courts have described this case

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

  • rejecting the contention that a personnel board was a \quasijudicial body\ when board members were only sued in their official capacities
  • “[T]he ADA imposes respondeat superior liability on an employer for the acts of its agents.”
  • “the ADA imposes respondeat superior liability on an employer for the acts of its agents”
  • “The only immunities available in an official capacity suit are those that may be asserted by the governmental entity itself (e.g., Eleventh Amendment immunity or sovereign immunity).”

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Judges: Coffey, Flaum, Ripple

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