Norman Calhoun v. Kenneth Ramsey, Sheriff of Kane County, and Correctional Medical Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a Monell claim ordinarily “requires more evidence than a single incident to establish liability”
• explaining that a Monell claim ordinarily “requires more evidence than a single incident to establish liability”
• stating that a custom or practice claim “requires more evidence than a single incident to establish liability”
• noting that the same problem needs to have come up multiple times to put a municipality on notice that a policy may need to be implemented to address the situation
• explaining that such theory can only be invoked “where a policy explicitly violates a constitutional right when enforced”
• explaining that “[t]he express policy theory” of Monell liability refers to a policy that “explicitly violates a constitutional right when enforced”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).