Thomas Turpin v. Joseph Mailet

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• holding that policy cannot ʺordinarily be inferred from a single incident of illegality,ʺ and even multiple incidents, without more, do not create custom
• noting that “absent more 14 evidence of supervisory indifference, such as acquiescence in a prior pattern of conduct, a policy could not ordinarily be inferred from a single incident of illegality”
• assessing whether a police chief ratified the acts of his subordinates
• a municipal policy ordinarily cannot be inferred from a single incident of illegality such as a first arrest without probable cause or with excessive use of force
• no demonstration of policy condoning unconstitutional action by city employees where only evidence presented was plaintiff’s own arrest and failure to discipline the arresting officer for prior use of excessive force
• no demonstration of policy condoning unconstitutional action by city employees where only evidence presented was plaintiff's own arrest and failure to discipline the arresting officer for prior use of excessive force

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).