Southern Traction Co. v. Warren County

How courts have described this case

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• holding allegations Miami-Dade County failed to adequately train its police officers in techniques designed to prevent encounters with potential suspects from becoming volatile or dangerous were not well-pleaded facts but, rather, conclusory assertions
• rejecting “the plaintiffs’ legal conclusion that four isolated shootings were enough to constitute a custom or usage in the absence of a written law or express municipal policy”
• “The single-incident liability exception is a narrow one and guidance is limited as neither the Supreme Court nor Eleventh Circuit has ever applied it”
• “[D]eliberate indifference is a stringent standard of fault, requiring proof that a municipal actor disregarded a known or obvious consequence of his action.”
• “A plaintiff certainly cannot establish a widespread unconstitutional practice through prior constitutional actions. Plaintiffs have not offered any description of a prior incident involving a relevant constitutional violation”

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