Jessica L. Hayden, Nicole C. Merrill and Colleen M. Rhoads v. Richard Grayson, Chief of Police of the Town of Lisbon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there was no evidence a police officer intended to treat sexual abuse crimes differently from nonsexual crimes
• discussing how victims of child sexual abuse could be an arbitrary class denied equal protection
• guoting and adding emphasis to City of Canton v. Harris, 489 U.S. 378, 390 (1989)
• “The liability criteria for ‘failure to train’ claims are exceptionally stringent . . . .”
• where plaintiffs could not prove equal protection violation against police chief, town could not be found liable for its police policies
• “[O]f course, the Town could be held liable under section 1983 were it to appear that the injury to plaintiffs was caused by the Town’s failure to train [the defendant].” (emphasis omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).