Veronica McQueen v. Beecher Community Schools

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• providing that supervisory liability cannot “be based solely on the right to control employees or simple awareness of employees’ misconduct”
• explaining that Monell liability under § 1983 requires prerequisite unconstitutional acts by a municipal employee
• listing seven cases in the past eight years in which the Sixth Circuit did not find an affirmative act
• declining to entertain appeal of magistrate judge’s order denying a motion for a default judgment where the magistrate did not exercise plenary jurisdiction and the appellant did not appeal to the district judge
• discussing the state-created danger theory as an exception to the general rule
• deliberate indifference is the appropriate standard where there is an “opportunity for reflection and unhurried judgments”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).