John Eric Thomas, and Wife, Heather Thomas v. City of Chattanooga, Tennessee

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a policy or custom cannot be established solely by a single instance of an employee’s alleged misconduct
• holding that a policy or custom cannot be established solely by a single instance of an employee’s alleged misconduct
• holding that a policy or custom cannot be established solely by a single instance of an employee’s alleged misconduct
• holding that a policy or custom cannot be established solely by a single instance of an employee’s alleged misconduct
• holding that a municipal liability claim could not survive summary judgment “without [the plaintiff] showing more than [the officer’s] potentially excessive use of force in this particular case”
• holding that evidence that police officers had used excessive force in the particular case before the court was insufficient to establish a pattern of illegal activity as required for municipal liability under inaction theory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).