Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Turpin v. City of West Haven

449 U.S. 1016

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.