Johnson v. Dossey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate ·

Most-quoted passages

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1. “The corporate defendants require a bit more attention. Both [defendants] claim to be sued solely under a theory of respondeat superior or vicarious liability. Like public municipal corporations, they cannot be sued solely on that basis: a “private corporation is not vicariously liable under § 1983 for its employees’ deprivations of others’ civil rights.” Iskander v. Vill. of Forest Park, 690 F.2d 126 , 128 (7th Cir.1982); see also Jackson v. Illinois Medi-Car, Inc., 300 F.3d 760 (7th Cir.2002). However, like a municipality, a private corporation can be liable if the injury alleged is the result of a policy or practice, or liability can be “demonstrated indirectly ‘by showing a series of bad acts and inviting the court to infer from them that the policy-making level of government was bound to have noticed what was going on and by failing to do anything must have encouraged or at least condoned ... the misconduct of subordinate officers.’ ” Woodward v. Corr. Med. Servs., 368 F.3d 917 , 927 (7th Cir.2004).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rodriguez v. Plymouth Ambulance Service

2. “A Brady claim, on the other hand, is not controlled by Wallace , by rather by Heck .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brown v. City of Hous.