monell-doctrine
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-956 | Los Angeles County, California, et al. v. Peter Woods Nyarecha, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-06 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | cell-check-policy constitutional-violation monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 summary-judgment | The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's official policy requires deputy officers to regularly check inmates' cells for signs of life. It is undi… |
| 22-724 | San Juan County, Utah v. Rosalie Chilcoat | Tenth Circuit | 2023-02-02 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 state-action state-actor unconstitutional-action | A prosecutor in San Juan County, Utah, acted on behalf of the State of Utah when he made allegedly false statements at the preliminary hearing in the … | |
| 21-1022 | Daniel Garza v. City of Los Angeles, California | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | civil-rights constructive-notice due-process monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability policy-maker ratification unconstitutional-conduct | 1) May a municipality be held liable for ratification, under Monell v. Department of Social Services, when the final policy maker has constructive not… | |
| 21-534 | Roman Andy Janiec, et al. v. City of Glendora, California | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-12 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights class-of-one monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 selective-enforcement | 1. Can a municipality be held liable under 42 U.S.C. §1983 pursuant to Monell v Dep't of Soc. Servs. of City of New York, 436 U.S. 658 (1978) for a "c… | |
| 20-6604 | Mark T. Grant v. City of Roanoke, Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law contract due-process federal-funding federal-spending-clause housing monell-doctrine private-cause-of-action property-rights regulations takings | Question 1: The HUD, Participating Jurisdiction, and Citizen Relationship HUD and the City of Roanoke, VA entered into a contract where the City would… |
| 19-593 | City of Camden, New Jersey v. Alanda Forrest | Third Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process legal-standard monell-doctrine monell-liability monell-v-department-of-social-services municipal-liability policy-custom policy-or-custom policymaker-notice untrained-or-unsupervised-employees | What, under Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Serus., 436 U.S. 658 (1978), and its progeny, constitutes a pattern of similar constitutional violations by untrai… | |
| 19-6148 | Cornelius Lorenzo Wilson v. Dennis Grimes, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment medical-care monell-doctrine monell-liability municipal-jail municipal-liability prison-conditions prisoner-rights serious-medical-need systemic-underfunding | 1. Does systemic underfunding and understaffing of a municipal jail that knowingly causes significant delays for prisoners receiving access to outside… |
| 18-773 | Daniel Sullivan v. City of Frederick, Maryland, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 assembly civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech monell monell-doctrine municipal-immunity retaliation | Three questions are presented: 1. Did the court below err in affirming that a sixmonth criminal investigation of police officer Dan Sullivan, for his… | |
| 18-498 | Maricopa County, Arizona v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process issue-preclusion law-enforcement monell-doctrine monell-liability policymaker-liability sovereign-immunity title-vi violent-crime-control-act | In McMillian v. Monroe County, Alabama, 520 U.S. 781 (1997), this Court held that counties cannot be liable in actions brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 … | |
| 18-476 | Cowlitz County, Washington, et al. v. Jule Crowell, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability objective-reasonableness section-1983 serious-medical-needs subjective-intent | 1. Whether a pretrial de tainee alleging Fourteenth Amendment claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under 42 U.S. C. § 1983 must … |