Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Turpin v. City of West Haven
Turpin v. City of W. Haven, 449 U.S. 1016 (1980)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1980-12-01
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- municipality can be held liable only where it implicity or tacitly authorizes, approves or encourages harassment by police
- failure to discipline officer for single incident of illegality was not official policy
Citator
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.