City of Canton v. Harris

How courts have described this case

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• “That a particular officer may be unsatisfactorily trained will not alone suffice to 17 fasten liability on the city, for the officer’s shortcomings may have resulted from factors 18 other than a faulty training program.”
• “[W]here a 8 municipality’s failure to train its employees in a relevant respect evidences a ‘deliberate 9 indifference’ to the rights of its inhabitants can such a shortcoming be properly thought of as a 10 city ‘policy or custom’ that is actionable under § 1983.””

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).