Parrish v. Ball

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant was entitled to qualified immunity when no facts showed he “[rJeceived notice of a pattern of unconstitutional acts committed by his subordinates”
• noting that “[t]he plaintiff must also prove that the alleged failure to train ‘actually caused’ the constitutional deprivation” (quoting Andrews, 98 F.3d at 1078)
• noting that plaintiff must show that the governmental entity “itself caused the constitutional violation at issue” in order to sustain an official-capacity claim
• noting that “[a] suit against a public official in his official capacity is actually a suit against the entity for which the official is an agent.”
• observing that any governmental official is liable only for his or her own misconduct
• noting that each governmental official is liable only for his or her own misconduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).