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DOWDALL LAW OFFICES A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION ATTORNEYS AT LAW City of Santa Ana August 28, 2023 Page 15 The Violations of Civil Rights of the Voters and Parkowners The violations of the charter, the government code, and constitutional provisions for charter governments proximately resulting the deprivation of constitutional rights on the part of the mobilehome park owners in the city of Santa Ana. Under federal law, actions for damages may be brought against individual leaders as agents of municipal Corporation such as the city of Santa Ana. Each Council member should take fair notice that actions to promote violation of constitutional rights may result in actions to determine whether or not compensation is required for the damage cause, and the cognizable relief provided by federal law. In accordance with opinions of the Ninth Circuit, "We have found municipal liability on the basis of ratification when the officials involved adopted and expressly approved of the acts of others who caused the constitutional violation. See, e.g., Hammond v. County of Madera, 859 F.2d 797, 802-803 (9th Cir. 1988) (board, which was responsible for approving transfers of rights -of -way, accepted and approved of transfer documents that resulted in deprivation of constitutional rights);" Trevino v. Gates (9th Cir. 1996) 99 F.3d 911, 920. "(One) ...who has voluntarily undertaken the task of supervising the operation of the school and the activities of the students, must be held to a standard of conduct based not only on permissible intentions, but also on knowledge of the basic, unquestioned constitutional rights of his charges. Such a standard imposes neither an unfair burden upon a person assuming a responsible public office requiring a high degree of intelligence and judgment for the proper fulfillment of its duties, nor an unwarranted burden in light of the value which civil rights have in our legal system. Any lesser standard would deny much of the promise of § 1983. The U. S Supreme Court therefore concluded that the loyalty oath which requires a public official to support and defend the constitution is enforced with federal remedies against a dereliction of that civic responsibility. ... a school board member is not immune from liability for damages under § 1983 if he knew or reasonably should have known that the action he took within his sphere of official responsibility would violate the constitutional rights of the student affected, or if he took the action with the malicious intention to cause a deprivation of constitutional rights or other injury to the student.... A compensatory award will be appropriate only if the school board member has acted with such an impermissible motivation or with such disregard of the -15-