What is the test for a claim against a supervisory defendant for deprivation of constitutional rights?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Alarcon v. Davey, Case No. 1:16-cv-01461-JLT (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2018):

To state a claim for relief under this theory, Plaintiff must allege some facts that would support a claim that supervisory defendants either: personally participated in the alleged deprivation of constitutional rights; knew of the violations and failed to act to prevent them; or promulgated or "implemented a policy so deficient that the policy 'itself is a repudiation of constitutional rights' and is 'the moving force of the constitutional violation.'" Hansen v. Black,

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