Trigalet v. City of Tulsa

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a municipality may be held liable only if the conduct of its employees directly caused a violation of a plaintiff's constitutional rights
• rejecting claims against county for failure to train and failure to adopt appropriate policies where individual officers had not violated the constitutional rights of driver killed by suspect fleeing police
• a municipality cannot be held liable for the actions of its employees if the employees’ actions do not constitute a constitutional violation
• “[A]bsent a constitutional violation by the individual police officers whose conduct directly caused plaintiffs’ injuries, there can be no municipal liability . . . .”
• a municipality “cannot be held liable where, as here, the officers did not commit a constitutional violation.”
• “[T]he City cannot be held liable where, as here, the officers did not commit a constitutional violation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).