RYMER v. DAVIS

No. 83-5586.

754 F.2d 198 (1985)

Paul D. RYMER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Trooper H.A. DAVIS, et al., Defendants, City of Shepherdsville, Kentucky, and Ben Stillwell, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 11, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark E. Edison (argued), Shepherdsville, Ky., for defendants-appellants.

Harley N. Blankenship, Louisville, Ky., Peter Perlman (argued), Lexington, Ky., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before KEITH and JONES, Circuit Judges, and POTTER, District Judge.


NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the issue of whether a city may be liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) when the city has failed to train its police officers or has trained its police officers in a way that was so reckless or grossly negligent that future police misconduct is almost inevitable or substantially certain to result. We hold that under the circumstances of this case, it was not error to find the city liable for such a failure...

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