Surplus Store and Exchange, Inc. v. City of Delphi

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that \the language and standards from Monell are not to become a dead letter\
• stating that “the language and standards from Monell are not to become a dead letter”
• rejecting the argument that a municipality was liable because it \ha[d] a 'policy' of allowing or instructing its police officers to enforce the challenged statutes\
• rejecting the argument that a municipality was liable because it “ha[d] a ‘policy’ of allowing or instructing its police officers to enforce the chal‐ lenged statutes”
• rejecting the argument that a municipality was liable because it “ha[d] a ‘policy’ of allowing or instructing its police officers to enforce the chal‐ lenged statutes”
• “It is difficult to imagine a municipal policy more innocuous and constitutionally permissible, and whose causal connection to the alleged violation is more attenuated, than the ‘policy’ of enforcing state law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).