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CACI No. 3005

Supervisor Liability for Acts of Subordinates (42 U.S.C.

activein force · 2025-01-01 – presentcompiled-edition

§ 1983)

[Name of plaintiff] claims that [name of supervisor defendant] is personally

liable for [his/her/ nonbinary pronoun] harm. In order to establish this

claim, [name of plaintiff] must prove all of the following:

1. That [name of supervisor defendant] knew, or in the exercise of

reasonable diligence should have known, of [name of subordinate

employee defendant]’s wrongful conduct;

2. That [name of supervisor defendant] knew that the wrongful

conduct created a substantial risk of harm to [name of plaintiff];

3. That [name of supervisor defendant] disregarded that risk by

[expressly approving/impliedly approving/ [or] failing to take

adequate action to prevent] the wrongful conduct; and

4. That [name of supervisor defendant]’s conduct was a substantial

factor in causing [name of plaintiff]’s harm.

New April 2007; Renumbered from CACI No. 3013 December 2010; Revised

December 2011; Renumbered from CACI No. 3017 December 2012; Revised June

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courts.ca.gov
Retrieved
2026-08-20
Edition
caci-2025
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19f1b76c3f414cc477ffdb060c61ccca47288cab5400c149cb80c2003314521a
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