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· 6/2/1922

Barriger v. Louisville Gas & Electric Co.

Citations

  • 196 Ky. 268
  • 244 S.W. 690
  • 31 A.L.R. 1408
  • 1922 Ky. LEXIS 496

How courts have described this case

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  • declining to assess plaintiff’s Eighth Amendment claim since plaintiff failed to sufficiently plead a Monell claim against the city defendant
  • stating that to state a Monell claim for failure to train, a plaintiff must “demonstrate that the failure to train proximately caused his constitutional injury by identifying a particular failure in a training program that is closely related to the ultimate injury”
  • allegation that attackers had a history of “known prior violent acts and propensity for violence” was insufficient to establish deliberate indifference

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Judges: Clarke

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