City of Canton v. Harris

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1989-02-28

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Justice O’Connor, with whom Justice Scalia and Justice Kennedy join, concurring in part and dissenting in part. I join Parts I and II and all of Part III of the Court’s opinion except footnote 11, see ante, at 390, n. 11. I thus agree that where municipal policymakers are confronted with an obvious need to train city personnel to avoid the violation of constitutional rights and they are deliberatel…

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