John David Palmer v. City of San Antonio, Texas

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• holding that official policy is either a statement officially adopted by a municipality or a persistent widespread practice of municipality employees which is common and well established
• \the assertion of a single incident is not sufficient to show that a policy or custom exists on the part of a municipality\
• “the assertion of a single incident is not sufficient to show that a policy or custom exists on the part of a municipality”
• Proof of random acts or isolated events are insufficient to establish custom.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).