Jane Doe v. Claiborne County, Tennessee

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “[a]ll evidence presented by a party opponent, is prejudicial to the other side, to a greater or lesser degree”
• finding that supervisory defendants had not knowingly acquiesced in unconstitutional conduct because “[t]hey had no knowledge, constructive or otherwise, that Davis was abusing Doe.”
• opining that no municipality could have a policy or custom of affirmatively condoning abuse
• stating that knowing acquiescence implies more than “sloppy, reckless, or neglectful” execution of duties
• explaining that a plaintiff “must also show a direct causal link between the custom and the constitutional deprivation; that is, she must show that the particular injury was incurred because of the execution of that policy”
• assuming coach acted under color of law when he abused student on bus trips to baseball games and kissed her in coaches’ office, although sexual intercourse occurred off school grounds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).