Can a defendant be held liable for the deprivation of a person's constitutional rights in a civil case?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Fuller v. Nguyen, No. 2:17-cv-0600 WBS AC P (E.D. Cal. 2019):
personally participated in the deprivation of constitutional rights or directed the violations or (2) knew of the violations and failed to act to prevent them. Id.; Taylor v. List, 880 F.2d 1040, 1045 (9th Cir. 1989). Defendants, however, cannot be held liable for being generally deficient in their supervisory duties.
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