Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Gillies v. Delozier

88 L. Ed. 2d 916

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1986-01-27
Topic
general

finding a section 1983 action permissible where a hearing that violated state procedural requirements simultaneously violated federal due process mandates | municipality may be liable if official’s actions were carried out with “supervisory encouragement, condo-nation, or even acquiescence” | “Even if we were to credit complaints of police brutality as well as complaints of other shootings, we cannot see that there is a pattern of police violence so striking as to allow an inference of supervisory encouragement, condonation, or even acquiescence.” citations omitted | Parratt applies only to random acts | “gross negligence amounting to deliberate indifference”

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C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied.