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Moor Vs. County of Alameda

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 14, 1973

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  9. Moor v. County
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  10. of Alameda - 411 U.S. 693 (1973) U.S. Supreme Court Moor v. County
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  11. of Alameda, 411 U.S. 693 (1973) Moor v. County
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  12. under Monroe v. Pape
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  13. to apply that provision here by imposing vicarious liability upon the County would contravene the holding in Monroe v. Pape
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  14. extends to a State's political subdivision that is not simply the arm or alter ego of the State, Cowles v. Mercer
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  15. the federal civil rights claims in the Moor suit. The County relied upon this Court's decision in Monroe v. Pape
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  16. The starting point for petitioners' argument is this Court's decision in Monroe v. Pape
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  17. this case are not asking us to create a substantive federal liability without legislative direction. See United States v. Standard
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  18. United States v. Gilman
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  19. Cf. Richards v. United
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  20. in the scheme of federal civil rights legislation is amply illustrated by our decision in Sullivan v. Little
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  21. civil rights claim. Such a result would seem to be less than consistent with this Court's prior holding in Monroe v. Pape
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  22. Brown v. Town
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  23. Ries v. Lynskey
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  24. Brown v. Ames
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  25. Wilcher v. Gain
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  26. rather, we must construe the statute in light of the impressions under which Congress did in fact, act, see Ries v. Lynskey
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  27. County under the doctrine of pendent jurisdiction. Petitioners rely principally upon the decision in Mine Workers v. Gibbs
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  28. approach of Hurn v. Oursler
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  29. See Monroe v. Pape
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  30. the District Court and Court of Appeals considered themselves bound by the Ninth Circuit's previous decision in Hymer v. Chai
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  31. and, significantly, Hymer was largely based on the Court of Appeals' earlier decision in Kataoka v. May
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  32. predated Gibbs and the expansion of the concept of pendent jurisdiction beyond the narrow limits set by Hurn v. Oursler
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  33. Miller v. County
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  34. Lowe v. Manhattan
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  35. jurisdiction. That proposition has been established at least since this Court's decision in Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Alabama
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  36. U. S. 482 , 155 U. S. 487 (1894). See also Minnesota v. Northern
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  37. is a citizen of the State for diversity purposes. Page 411 U. S. 718 See, e.g., Bullard v. City
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  38. Loeb v. Columbia
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  39. Cowles v. Mercer
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  40. See, e.g., 43 U. S. C. & C. R. Co. v. Letson
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  41. Barrow S.S. Co. v. Kane
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  42. U. S. 100 , 170 U. S. 106 (1898). Thus, in the seminal case of Cowles v. Mercer
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  43. Illinois v. City
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  44. indication possible from California's Supreme Court of the status of California's counties. In People ex rel. Younger v. County
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  45. Cal.3d at 491 n. 12, 487 P.2d at 1199 n. 12 (emphasis added). See also Pitchess v. Superior
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  46. independent corporate character to dictate that it be treated as a citizen of California under our decision in Cowles v. Mercer
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  47. See Answer to Complaint, Moor v. Madigan
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  48. Answer to Complaint, Rundle v. Madigan
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  49. Lankford v. Gelston
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  50. Richards v. United
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