William McKee v. Tom Heggy, Chief of Police, Paul Puckett, Owner, Pucketts Auto Wrecker Service and City of Oklahoma City

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• posted public notice and letter to third party was not reasonably cal- culated to provide detained individual notice of vehicle’s impending sale
• “a defendant cannot be liable under a respondeat superior theory in a section 1983 case.”
• “defendant Heggy is liable to [plaintiff] only if Mr. Heggy participated or acquiesced in [plaintiff]’s deprivation or if he inadequately trained or supervised the officers who did”
• reasonable diligent efforts include a reasonable attempt at ascertaining the name and last-known address of the interested party and informing any relatives of the interested party whose addresses were known about the actions to be taken
• reasonable diligent efforts include a reasonable attempt at ascertaining the name and last-known address of the interested party and informing any relatives of the interested party whose addresses were known about the actions to be taken

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