State Highway Commission v. Goodwin

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• finding “[t]he evidence admitted at trial 28 was legally sufficient to permit a reasonable jury to find the City liable under [plaintiff’s] § 1983 1 Monell claim even though the jury found the individual defendants inflicted no constitutional 2 harm”
• plaintiff held for twelve days without hearing, 27 court appearance, or fingerprint comparison was a due process violation
• failure to create 10 a policy to prevent the admittedly “not uncommon” occurrence of warrant mix-ups led to Monell 11 liability
• chief of police knew that it was “not uncommon” for individuals to be arrested on the wrong warrant but failed to institute procedures to alleviate the problem
• neither a fingerprint comparison nor Department of 10 Vehicles check was completed at any time during the detention coupled with significant differences in 11 physical characteristics of the arrestee and the true suspect

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