Johnnie Faye Spiller v. City of Texas City, Police Department State of Texas Mark Spurgeon City of Texas City

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a motorist yelling at an officer to “move his damn truck” did not constitute “fighting words”
• holding that “a plaintiff must initially allege that an official policy or custom” caused alleged constitutional deprivations
• holding that the complaint was legally insufficient because it alleged conclusorily that the local official’s misconduct reflected an official policy or custom of the locality
• holding that conclusory allegations of a policy or custom, without supporting facts, are insufficient to state a Monell claim
• holding that “a plaintiff must initially allege that an official policy or custom” caused alleged constitutional deprivations
• stating that it is the plaintiff’s burden to identify a municipal policy or custom which proximately resulted in the plaintiff’s constitutional injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).