Wallingford & Arango v. McCarty

How courts have described this case

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• “Liability under § 1983 may not be imposed upon an official simply on the basis of respondeat superior.”
• “Liability under § 1983 may not be imposed upon an official simply on the basis of respondeat superior.”
• superior must be shown to be “somehow personally at fault by actively participating in, encouraging or directing the commission of illegal acts by his subordinates”
• “We reject the argument ... that this action is barred by the Ohio statute of limitations [citing Crawford]. Even if this case was simply one for malicious prosecution, the action would still be timely filed.”
• district court may not weigh the evidence on a motion for directed verdict

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).