Deslondes v. Wilson

How courts have described this case

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

• denying motion to dismiss where plaintiffs alleged nine instances of use of excessive force against mentally ill victims in four years
• agreeing with common-sense approached endorsed in Thomas v. City of Galveston, Tex., 800 F. Supp. 2d 826, 842 (S.D. Tex. 2011)
• complaint that “describe nine specific instances of EPPD officers using excessive force against mentally ill victims” survived motion to dismiss
• examples occurring “after the incident in question” are not typically used to show a pattern or practice, but they may be used to show existence of a policy
• “This alleged lack of disciplinary measures plausibly suggests to the Court that EPPD had a blanket policy of not disciplining officers who were responsible for using excessive force.”
• “[T]he failure to discipline other officers created a culture that emboldened the officers in this case to engage in the - 29 - conduct that resulted in Salas-Sanchez’s death.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).