Ledbetter v. City of Topeka, KS

How courts have described this case

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• holding judicial decision in a particular case is not an “official policy or custom,” so as to impose liability under Monell and collecting authority holding same
• instructing in pretrial detainee cases that “jail conditions may be restrictive and even harsh without violating constitutional rights”
• instructing in pretrial detainee cases that “jail conditions may be restrictive and even harsh without violating constitutional rights”
• collecting cases and holding that a municipal judge who allowed his clerk to sign warrants on his behalf even though he had not reviewed them was not a promulgator of municipal policy
• pretrial detainee held for five hours in a cell without a toilet did not state a Fourteenth Amendment due process claim
• “Because [the plaintiff] proceeds pro se, we construe his pleadings liberally. We therefore read his appellate brief as challenging the district court’s five dispositive rulings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).