Fiacco v. City Of Rensselaer

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the practice of using excessive force can be the basis for municipal liability even though the city's policy on force is itself constitutional
• stating that the practice of using excessive force can be the basis for municipal liability even though the city’s policy on force is itself constitutional
• stating that city's failure to implement its valid policies by requiring police officers to abide by them could give rise to liability for failure to supervise its officers
• stating that city's failure to implement its valid policies by requiring police officers to abide by them could give rise to liability for failure to supervise its officers
• dismissing appeal of an order of remittitur of $25,000 for a § 1983 excessive force claim involving handcuff-related injuries
• “the existence of a policy of nonsupervision amounting to deliberate indifference to constitutional rights cannot be established by inference solely from evidence of the occurrence of the incident in question”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).