· 1/20/2004
Herrera v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Citations
- 298 F. Supp. 2d 1043
- 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1099
- 2004 WL 121828
How courts have described this case
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- concluding LVMPD does not enjoy discretionary-act immunity in its training and supervision decisions because \[it] assumes the obligation to ensure that its employees do not pose an unreasonable safety risk to those with whom they come into contact\
- not objectively reasonable as a matter of law to shoot mentally disturbed individual “standing with the knife pointed skyward, stunned, for nearly a full minute”
- denying summary judgment on failure-to-train claim on analogous facts
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Judges: Hicks
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