Hunter v. County of Sacramento

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that 6 “evidence of a recurring failure to investigate and discipline municipal officers for constitutional 7 violations can help establish the existence of an unconstitutional practice or custom” of using 8 excessive force
• holding that 23 “evidence of a recurring failure to investigate and discipline municipal officers for constitutional 24 violations can help establish the existence of an unconstitutional practice or custom” of using 25 excessive force
• holding that “evidence of inaction—specifically, failure to investigate and discipline employees in the face of widespread constitutional violations—can support an inference that an unconstitutional custom or practice has been unofficially adopted by a municipality”
• holding that 23 “evidence of a recurring failure to investigate and discipline municipal officers for constitutional 24 violations can help establish the existence of an unconstitutional practice or custom” of using 25 excessive force
• holding that 22 “evidence of a recurring failure to investigate and discipline municipal officers for constitutional 23 violations can help establish the existence of an unconstitutional practice or custom” of using 24 excessive force
• noting that 14 deliberate indifference could be determined where evidence shows officers repeatedly committed 15 constitutional violations but were not disciplined or reprimanded

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).