Overstreet v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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• finding that punitive damages were not recoverable against a school district or school board
• finding plaintiff “sufficiently pleaded a failure-to-act-or- supervise Monell claim to survive dismissal” where plaintiff “allege[d] that the District’s policymaking officials failed to take any meaningful corrective or preventive action”
• acknowledging a “de facto bar to vicarious liability in sexual assault cases”
• a plaintiff “must allege facts tending to support, at least circumstantially, an inference that such a municipal policy or custom exists”
• “Monell does not provide a separate cause of action against a municipal entity; rather, ‘it extends liability to a municipal organization where that organization’s [policy, practice, or custom] led to an independent constitutional violation.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).