Silva v. Worden

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• holding that a municipality “must also be responsible for the dissemination of defamatory charges, in a formal setting (and not merely as the result of unauthorized ‘leaks’”)
• finding insuffi- cient evidence of a custom when witnesses “could only remember a few instances over the last twenty years”
• finding insuffi- cient evidence of a custom when witnesses “could only remember a few instances over the last twenty years”
• stating custom is demonstrated by showing\practice is so well settled and widespread that the policymaking officials have either actual or constructive knowledge of it\
• defining municipal liability through policy or custom that caused injury in the § 1983 context
• liberty interest not implicated where employer terminated plaintiff’s probationary contract after plaintiff pushed a coworker and city officials did not disseminate information outside of administrative setting

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