Can a supervisor be held liable for the actions of his or her subordinate under federal law?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Crisanto v. Cnty. of Tulare, 1:15-cv-01527 LJO BAM (E.D. Cal. 2015):
Moreover, under federal law"[g]enerally, supervisory officials are not liable for the actions of subordinates on any theory of vicarious liability under 42 U.S.C. 1983." Jeffers v. Gomez, 267 F.3d 895, 915 (9th Cir. 2001) ("A supervisor may be liable under 1983 only if there exists either (1) his or her personal involvement in the constitutional deprivation, or (2) a sufficient causal connection between
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