Conner v. Travis County

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• holding that district court improperly sanctioned attorney for filing frivolous appeal
• holding that district court improperly sanctioned attorney for filing frivolous appeal
• holding that district courts cannot generally sanction parties for appeals
• noting that the Supreme Court “rejected a per se rule barring a court from sanctioning parties for conduct they take outside its courtroom” in Chambers
• reasoning that “if the need for training ... was ‘so obvious’ and the failure to train was ‘so likely to result in the violation of constitutional rights[,]’... Connors would be able to identify other instances of harm arising from the failure to train”
• observing, however, that in Brown v. Bryan County, Okla., 219 F.3d 450 (5th Cir.2000

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