Robert E. Thompson v. City of Los Angeles, and County of Los Angeles, University of California at Los Angeles

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the county had a compelling interest in diagnosing and preventing the transmission of serious disease among detainees
• noting that “a jail’s failure to provide detainees with a mattress and bed or bunk runs afoul of the commands of the Fourteenth Amendment”
• “Consistent with the 22 commonly understood meaning of custom, proof of random acts or 23 isolated events are [sic] insufficient to establish custom.”
• “[P]roof of random acts 14 or isolated events are insufficient to establish custom.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).