Schneider v. City of Grand Junction Police Department

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a “well-settled custom or practice” may be deemed an official policy or custom for § 1983 municipal-liability purposes
• recognizing the plain- tiff’s obligation to show that a municipal policy or custom was the “moving force” behind an alleged constitutional violation
• noting that “a final decision by a municipal policy maker” may be “deemed an official policy or custom”
• explaining that “the Supreme Court require[s] a plaintiff to show that the policy was enacted or maintained with deliberate indifference to an almost inevitable constitutional injury.”
• finding that “one other report of non-consensual sexual misconduct” involving a different officer was “not enough to make it obvious to [the police department] that officers were likely to engage in non-consensual sexual conduct”
• finding that “one other report of non-consensual sexual misconduct” involving a different officer was “not enough to make it obvious to [the police department] that officers were likely to engage in non-consensual sexual conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).