Ronald E. Stevens, Individually and as Guardian of the Person and Estate of Bradley Edwin Stevens, a Disabled Person v. Richard Umsted

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• holding that a § 1983 complaint “that fails to specify the capacity in which the defendants are being sued is ordinarily construed to be against them in their official capacity”
• noting that state laws “do not ¡clear- • ly establish a violation of a constitutional right as required for a § 1983 action”
• holding that a school superintendent’s failure to remove students who sexually assaulted the disabled plaintiff, and his failure to place the plaintiff in a safer environment, nonetheless did not give rise to liability under the state-created danger doctrine
• holding that a school superintendent’s failure to remove students who sexually assaulted the disabled plaintiff, and his failure to place the plaintiff in a safer environment, nonetheless did not give rise to liability under the state-created danger doctrine
• holding that a school superintendent’s failure to remove students who sexually assaulted the disabled plaintiff, and his failure to place the plaintiff in a safer environment, nonetheless did not give rise to liability under the state-created danger doctrine
• explaining that a suit against a government official will be assumed to be against them in their official capacity unless that assumption is negated by party behavior or record evidence

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