Sherry J. Anderson v. City of Atlanta

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “persistent” understaffing and “complaints . . . lodged with . . . supervisors,” although not specific in number, were “[c]ertainly . . . sufficient to show a custom or policy of understaffing”
• finding supervisory liability for deliberate indifference to a pretrial detainee’s serious medical needs when a supervisor failed to act after repeated complaints of inadequate staffing
• to constitute a policy or custom, practice must be so well-settled that it shows a force of legislative pronouncement
• “Monell . . . and its progeny do not require that a jury must first find an individual defendant liable before imposing liability on local government.”
• \Monell... and its progeny do not require that a jury must first find an individual defendant liable before imposing liability on local government\
• to constitute a policy or custom, practice must be so well-settled that it shows a force of legislative pronouncement

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