What is the test for liability under Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Lore v. City of Syracuse, 114 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. (BNA) 466, 670 F.3d 127, 95 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 44431 (2nd Cir. 2012):

[Although] to establish personal liability in a 1983 action, it is enough to show that the official, acting under color of state law, caused the deprivation of a federal right[,].... [m]ore is required in an official-capacity action, ... for a governmental entity is liable under 1983 only when the entity itself is a moving force behind the deprivation [;] ... thus, in an official-capacity suit the entity's policy or custom must have played a part in the violation of federal law.

Kentucky v. Graham, 473 U.S. at 166, 105 S.Ct. 3099 (first emphasis in original; second and third emphases added).

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