Paldo Sign and Display Company v. Wagener Equities, Incorporated

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• holding that the plaintiff stated a claim for municipal liability where the complaint alleged that the official city spokesperson “publicly announced a new policy”
• holding the plaintiff sufficiently pled that the Dallas city council promulgated the policy that caused his injury
• finding that plaintiff had adequately connected the policy to a policymaker by alleging that a city spokesman had publicly announced and gave media interviews describing the policy
• finding that plaintiff connected policy to city council through factual allegations that city “publicly announced” the policy and that city’s spokesperson “gave media interviews describing the new policy”
• explaining that an \allegation that an official city spokesperson announced an official city policy allows for a reasonable pleading inference that this crackdown policy was attributable to an official policy made by the policymaker of the city\
• finding that Groden carried his burden of connecting the policy to the city council by alleging that the city publicly announced the policy and that its “spokesman” gave “media interviews describing the new policy”

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