Larry M. Leach v. Shelby County Sheriff and Mayor of Shelby County, Tennessee

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an “official capacity” claim is “equivalent to a suit against the local government entity.”
• holding that the sheriff’s failure to investigate mistreatment and punish those involved “ratified the unconstitutional acts”
• holding that an “official capacity” claim is “equivalent to a suit against the local government entity.”
• noting that the lower court found that “at least 14 other paraplegics had received similar deplorable treat ment”
• noting that the lower court found that “at least 14 other paraplegics had received similar deplorable treatment”
• noting that the lower court found that “at least 14 other paraplegics had received similar deplorable treatment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).