Akeem Jamar Hurts v. the State of Texas

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• holding that a reasonable jury could find an arrestee’s “OCD-induced panic attack” was sufficiently serious
• holding that a municipality is not liable when there is no underlying violation by an officer
• holding that where there was evidence that a constitutional violation was a plainly obvious consequence of failure to train it was “for a jury to decide” whether municipality acted with deliberate indifference
• finding that “[d]eliberate indifference . . . is a question for the jury” concerning a municipal liability claim involving Davis County’s alleged failure to train
• concluding a jury could find deliberate indifference where the plaintiff repeatedly asked for assistance during a psychiatric emergency but was ignored
• noting that deliberate-indifference standard is satisfied if an officer \knows of and disregards an excessive risk to [a detainee's] health or safety.\ (internal quotations omitted)

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