Opinion ID: 4654718
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Heading: Wexford

Text: Peterson has likely waived any arguments directed to the district court’s judgment in favor of Wexford by simply failing to raise them on appeal. Gable v. City of Chicago, 296 F.3d 531, 538 (7th Cir. 2002) (finding that the plaintiffs “waived two of their arguments on appeal by not developing them in their opening brief”); see also Henry v. Hulett, 969 F.3d 769, 785–86 (7th Cir. 2020) (explaining that “waiver is the ‘intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right’” (quoting United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725, 733 (1993)). But even absent waiver, Peterson’s complaint fails to state a claim against Wexford for deliberate indifference. Peterson asserts that Wexford is liable under § 1983 “for the wrongdoing of its employee defendant Davida under the doctrine of respondeat superior.” This theory fails. Under Monell and its progeny, a corporation can be liable under § 1983 only for its own policies and practices, not under a theory of respondeat superior. Monell v. Dep’t of Soc. Servs. of New York, 436 U.S. 658, 691 (1978); accord Whiting v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., 839 F.3d 658, 664 (7th Cir. 2016); Shields v. Ill. Dep’t of Corrs., 746 F.3d 782, 796 (7th Cir. 2014); Iskander v. Village of Forest Park, 690 F.2d 126, 128 (7th Cir. 1982). Despite 12 No. 19-2592 calls to reconsider our precedent, “we have chosen to leave Iskander undisturbed,” Wilson v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., 932 F.3d 513, 522 (7th Cir. 2019) (citing Gaston v. Ghosh, 920 F.3d 493, 498 (7th Cir. 2019) (Hamilton, J., concurring)), and Peterson presents no reason for us to take another look. Furthermore, “‘if the plaintiff’s theory of Monell liability rests entirely on individual liability,’ as [Peterson’s] does here, then ‘negating individual liability will automatically preclude a finding of Monell liability.’” Donald, 982 F.3d at 463 (quoting Whiting, 839 F.3d at 664). This claim against Wexford must therefore, at any rate, meet the same fate as the claim against Dr. Davida.