Zimmer v. Gaffney

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a court cannot infer the existence of an unconstitutional policy or custom from a single occurrence
• a court cannot infer the existence of an unconstitutional policy or custom from a single occurrence
• “a single deviation from a written, official policy does not prove a conflicting custom or usage”
• “[A] single deviation from a written, official policy does not prove a conflicting custom or usage.”
• for public entity to be liable under § 1983, plaintiff must provide policies or customs caused violation of constitutional rights
• generally, an isolated incident of police misconduct by subordinate officers is insufficient to establish municipal policy or custom

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).