United States v. Jason Wesely

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a municipality may be subject to Monell liability where it makes a deliberate choice beyond what a statute requires
• recognizing that “a municipality may not escape liability for a § 1983 violation merely because the officer who committed the violation is entitled to qualified immunity”
• holding that a plaintiff seeking to establish municipal liability must “identify the policy, connect the policy to the [county] itself and show that the particular injury was incurred 6 because of that policy”
• noting that the deliberate indifference test is used to analyze failure- to-train claims but not affirmative policy or custom claims
• noting that to sustain a Monell claim, the “plaintiff must identify the policy, connect the policy to the [County] itself and show that the particular injury was incurred because of the execution of that policy.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• rejecting City’s argument that because the only defendant officer in the case had been dismissed by the district court, the City should also be dismissed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).