Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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• stating that injunctive relief is appropriate when plaintiffs show that police misconduct “is purposefully aimed at minorities and that such misconduct was condoned and tacitly authorized by department policy makers”
• standing to enjoin conduct aimed at Black and Latino residents within specified area
• police brutality directed at minority citizens meets actual injury test although such acts violate the Constitution
• \A state law enforcement agency may be enjoined from committing constitutional violations where there is proof that officers within the agency have engaged in a persistent pattern of misconduct.\
• “plaintiffs’ eventual burden in obtaining a permanent injunction against a state law enforcement agency is to establish more than repeated incidents of misconduct”
• “A state law enforcement agency may be enjoined from committing constitutional violations where there is proof that officers within the agency have engaged in a persistent pattern of misconduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).