Romine v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an official “‘cannot be held liable simply because … she was charged with overseeing’ the subordinate officers who violated the plaintiff’s constitutional rights.” (quoting Peatross v. City of Memphis, 818 F.3d 233, 241 (6th Cir. 2016)
• requiring allegation of “some active unconstitutional behavior” that is “directly correlated with the plaintiff’s injury”
• “An individual capacity claim based on supervisory liability, like all individual capacity claims, requires an allegation of personal liability.”
• Under § 1983, “[a]n official cannot be held liable for the 9 constitutional violations of subordinates under a theory of respondeat superior.”
• affirming denial of warden’s motion to dismiss

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).