Sewell v. Town of Lake Hamilton, FL

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that it is obvious that a police officer should not “barter arrests for sexual favors”
• reversing jury verdict against town and rejecting failure-to-train liability because it is obvious that a police officer should not “barter arrests for sexual favors”
• reversing jury verdict against town and rejecting failure-to-train liability because it is obvious that a police officer should not “barter arrests for sexual favors”
• “A custom is a practice that is so settled and permanent that it takes on the force of law.”
• “A custom is a practice that is so settled and permanent that it takes on the force of law.”
• “Obviously, the Town has no policy commanding its officers to barter arrests for sexual favors. Likewise, the Town has no custom of allowing such behavior on the part of its officers”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).