Lois Thurston Kibbe, Administrator of the Estate of Clinton Thurston v. City of Springfield

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• holding that a city could be found liable if the single event involved several officers
• holding that a single incident during which three police officers discharged their firearms and no officers informed medical personnel that the suspect had been shot was sufficient to infer a custom from just that incident
• holding failure to discipline a subordinate, without more, does not amount to ratification for pur- poses of municipal-policy liability
• holding failure to discipline a subordinate, without more, does not amount to ratifica- tion for purposes of municipal-policy liability
• noting a party “is not entitled to any specific words of instruction, but only to instructions that properly convey the applicable law of the case”
• city may be held liable either for failing to implement a training program or for implementing a program that was grossly inadequate to prevent the type of harm suffered by plaintiff

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