Zane W. Mason v. Village of El Portal, Anna Ward, L.D. Kennedy, and Tony Ferguson, Defendants

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• holding that, even if one council member acts with discriminatory motive, municipality not liable unless majority of members who acted did so with discriminatory motive
• finding no municipal liability “unless all three members of the council who voted against reappointing [p]laintiff shared the illegal motive.”
• “Thus the critical issue on appeal is whether the alleged racially discriminatory motive of only one member of a three- member majority of a five-member council can give rise to municipal liability. We agree with the trial court that it does not.”

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