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· 10/27/1989

Harold Dorman as Personal Representative of the Estate of Benny Washington, Deceased v. District of Columbia

Citations

  • 888 F.2d 159
  • 281 U.S. App. D.C. 146
  • 1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 16225
  • 1989 WL 127870

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that § 1983 claim could not survive on the basis of a failure to train where “there [was] no evidence of a conscious choice or a policy of deliberate indifference”
  • holding that § 1983 claim could not survive on the basis of a failure to train where “there [was] no evidence of a conscious choice or a policy of deliberate indifference”
  • holding that section 1983 claim could not survive on the basis of a failure to train where “there [was] no evidence of a conscious choice or a policy of deliberate indifference.”
  • municipality not liable as a matter of law for inadequacy of police training where “there is no evidence of a conscious choice or a policy of deliberate indifference”
  • municipality not liable as a matter of law for inadequacy of police training where “there is -10- no evidence of a conscious choice or a policy of deliberate indifference”

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Judges: Re, Edward, Ginsburg, Sentelle

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