Rios v. City of Del Rio TX

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• stating that “where two previous holdings or lines of precedent conflict the earlier opinion controls”
• noting that “this court has frequently spoken of the 8 To prevail on a state-created danger claim in the Third Circuit, a plaintiff must prove the following four elements: (1) the harm ultimately caused was foreseeable and fairly direct; (2
• \It is facially evident that this test [for supervisory liability] cannot be met if there is no underlying constitutional violation.\
• “Here there is no allegation of any prior incident in which [a similar violation occurred].”
• \The binding force of earlier opinions extends to alternative holdings but not to obiter dictum .\
• “Absent the existence of a predicate constitutional violation, Strain cannot be held liable either individually or in his official capacity for the acts of his subordinates.”

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