Scott v. Estes

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he United States Supreme Court has held that a municipality is immune from punitive damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and the reasoning behind this holding requires that the holding be extended to counties as well.”
• “[T]he United States Supreme Court has held that a municipality is immune from punitive damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and the reasoning behind this holding requires that the holding be extended to counties as well.” (internal citation and quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).