Wilson v. Town of Mendon

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that joint participation instruction depends on evidence of joint enterprise
• discussing “aiding and abetting” liability and appearing to 8 equate such liability with a failure to intervene
• stating in dicta that the “value . . . as of the time such suit was brought” 5 is established by the stock price on “the date the Section 11 claim was filed”
• “If . . . the officer has inflicted no constitutional harm, neither the municipality nor the supervisor can be held liable.”
• “The burden of placing that harm in the context of a causative municipal custom and policy is significantly more onerous than the task of simply proving that an actionable wrong occurred.”
• “Without a finding of a constitutional violation on the part of a municipal employee, there cannot be a finding of section 1983 damages liability on the part of the municipality.”

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