Legal Opinion
Patricia A. Johnson v. Theodore C. Granholm, Michael F. Lund, David F. Tibbetts & Montmorency County Board of Commissioners
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 6, 1981No. 80-1229PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Per curiam
The plaintiff appeals from judgment for the defendants in an action for damages pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The defendants were two former friends of the court, the prosecuting attorney and the board of commissioners of Montmorency County, Michigan. The claim for damages was based on the manner in which the individual defendants had dealt with the failure of plaintiff’s former husband to make child support payments as ordered in a divorce decree. Damages were sought from the county board of commissioners solely on the ground that it was the employer of the individual defendants.
The district…
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