Rodriguez-Garcia v. Miranda-Marin

How courts have described this case

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• noting damages for pain and suffering defy exact mathematical computation and are not susceptible to proof by a dollar amount
• “[L]iability may not be imposed on a municipality for a single instance of misconduct by an official without final policymaking authority.”
• “[T]he employer may avoid liability by showing that it would have reached the same decision even absent the protected conduct. This is the so-called Mt. Healthy defense.”
• “[E]ven if the defendant’s actions were motivated in part by the plaintiff’s protected conduct, the defendant can still prevail if he or she can show that the protected conduct was not the ‘but-for’ cause of the adverse action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).