Brockinton v. City of Sherwood

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the County cannot be held liable under § 1983 if the individual defendants are not liable
• stating that in order for municipal liability to attach to a policy-or-custom claim, there must be an underlying constitutional violation
• underlying constitutional violation by subordinate required for liability on part of person who allegedly failed to train subordinate
• granting qualified immunity when, in the face of inconsistent accounts, an officer credited an alleged victim’s story and made an arrest on that basis
• “A suit against a government actor in his official capacity is treated as a suit against the governmental entity itself”
• “[I]n order for municipal liability to attach, individual liability first must be found on an underlying substantive claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).