Piotrowski v. City of Houston

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the deposition of a police officer established that, pursuant to the Houston Police Department’s “code of silence,” police officers “took affirmative steps to suppress any information concerning [possible mistakes in an] investigation”
• holding that policy of acquiescing in “moonlighting” was proved by evidence suggesting third-party had hired off-duty police officers for years
• holding that a plaintiff does “not need to know [he] has a legal cause of action; [he] need know only the facts that would ultimately support a claim.”
• holding that the identification of a specific policymaker is “not an opaque requirement”
• noting that liability requires actual or constructive knowledge on the part of municipal policymaker
• stating that a cause of action accrues when a plaintiff knows of the existence of an injury and the connection between the injury and the defendant’s actions

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