Terry Lee Passmore Swann v. Southern Health

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the rationale against immunity for municipalities “is applicable in § 1983 suits against non-governmental entities not entitled to qualified immunity”
• noting that the heightened pleading standard for qualified immunity cases survives the Supreme Court’s decision in Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit, 507 U.S. 163, 113 S.Ct. 1160, 122 L.Ed.2d 517 (1993
• noting that the heightened pleading standard for qualified immunity cases survives the Supreme Court’s decision in Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit, 507 U.S. 163, 113 S. Ct. 1160, 122 L. Ed. 2d 517 (1993
• “Leatherman overturned our prior decisions to the extent that those cases required a heightened pleading standard in § 1983 actions against entities that cannot raise qualified immunity as a defense.”
• “[A municipality] is liable only for acts directly attributable to it ‘through some [sort of] official action or imprimatur.’”
• “Under the prior panel rule, we are bound by the holdings of earlier panels unless and until they are clearly overruled en banc or by the Supreme Court.”

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