Maria Flores v. County of Los Angeles

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• holding that a “pattern of similar constitutional violations by untrained employees is ordinarily necessary to demonstrate deliberate indifference for purposes of failure to train”
• recognizing that “the lack of training” must “actually cause[] the constitutional harm or deprivation of rights” (emphasis added)
• recognizing that the inadequacy of police training may serve as a basis for § 1983 liability where the failure to train amounts to deliberate indifference to the rights of persons with whom the police come into contact
• finding that failure to train police officers not to commit sexual assault was not “so patently obvious that the [defendants] were 28 deliberately indifferent”
• noting that plaintiff did not allege a pattern of sexual assaults 16 perpetrated by sheriff’s deputies before her alleged assault
• holding that a claim for failure to train requires allegations showing that a supervisor 19 “was deliberately indifferent to the need to the need to train subordinates, and the lack of training 20 actually caused [a] constitutional harm or deprivation of rights”

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