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Mcmillian Vs. Monroe County

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 18, 1997

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  6. McMillian v. Monroe
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  7. County - 520 U.S. 781 (1997) October Term, 1996 Syllabus Mcmillian V. Monroe
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  8. Monell v. New
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  9. authority for the local governmental actor concerning the action alleged to have caused the violation at issue. JeU v. Dallas
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  10. is dependent on the definition of the official's functions under relevant state law. Cf. Regents of Univ. of Gal. v. Doe
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  11. local officials' titles in a blatant effort to shield local governments from liability is foreclosed by St. Louis v. Praprotnik
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  12. then the county is liable for them. Monell v. New
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  13. the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reversed petitioner's conviction, holding that the State had violated Brady v. Maryland
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  14. by suppressing statements from Myers that contradicted his trial testimony and other exculpatory evidence. McMillian v. State
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  15. McMillian v. Johnson
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  16. in the lower courts, with some of petitioner's claims surviving motions for summary judgment. See McMillian v. Johnson
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  17. Jett v. Dallas
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  18. St. Louis v. Praprotnik
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  19. U. S. 159 , 165 (1985) (quoting Monell v. New
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  20. Pembaur v. Cincinnati
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  21. be dependent on the definition of the official's functions under relevant state law. Cf. Regents of Univ. of Cal. v. Doe
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  22. based in Alabama. In addition, this is the second Eleventh Circuit panel to have reached this conclusion. See Swint v. Wadley
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  23. Alexander v. State
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  24. Garber v. Cazalas
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  25. Parker v. Amerson
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  26. Court has held that a sheriff is absolutely immune from all suits for damages based on his official acts. Parker v. Amerson
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  27. So. 2d 442, 446 (Ala. 1987). See also King v. Colbert
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  28. Boshell v. Walker
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  29. Hereford v. Jefferson
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  30. of the counties-which in every Alabama county is the county commission, see Calvert v. Cullman
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  31. to share this information not with the county commission, but with the district attorney (a state official, see Hooks v. Hitt
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  32. See Etowah County Comm'n v. Hayes
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  33. that declare sheriffs to be county officers in one State, and not in another.10 10 Compare, e. g., Strickler v. Waters
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  34. Thompson v. Duke
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  35. jail employees, because county board of commissioners has no authority to set policy in this area), with Dotson v. Chester
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  36. Turner v. Upton
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  37. Crowder v. Sinyard
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  38. See Monell v. New
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  39. to the Eleventh Circuit's construction of Alabama law. See ante, at 786. But cf. Salve Regina College v. Russell
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  40. district courts' state-law determinations). Deference, however, does not supplant careful review, see St. Louis v. Praprot-
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  41. purposes. Cf. Regents of Univ. of Cal. v. Doe
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  42. see also Geneva Cty. Comm'n v. Tice
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  43. of a single official who more completely represents the exercise of significant power within a county. See Pembaur v. Cincinnati
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  44. see also Parker v. Williams
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  45. Lucas v. O'Loughlin
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  46. Weber v. Dell
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  47. Marchese v. Lucas
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  48. Blackburn v. Snow
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  49. CA1 1985) (Massachusetts sheriff acts for county in setting county jail strip search policy). But see Soderbeck v. Burnett
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  50. Syllabus Mcmillian V. Monroe
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