Raymond Wray v. City of New York, Daniel Martorano, William Weller, James McCavera and New York City Police Department, Docket No. 05-3341-Cv

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• holding that “failure to train or supervise city employees may constitute an official policy or custom if the failure amounts to deliberate indifference to the rights of those with whom the city employees interact” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that a plaintiff must identify a “specific deficiency” and establish that that deficiency is “closely related to the ultimate injury”
• granting summary judgment for city on Monell claim because officer’s conduct did not deprive plaintiff of his constitutional rights
• defining deliberate indifference as a “conscious disregard of the risk that poorly-trained employees will cause deprivations of clearly established constitutional rights”
• defining deliberate indifference as a “conscious disregard of the risk that poorly-trained employees will cause deprivations of clearly established constitutional rights”
• finding no proximate cause where the constitutional violation was caused by the intervening acts of the prosecutor and trial judge and there was no allegation that these actors were misled

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