United States failure to trainmunicipal liability

City of Canton v Harris

City of Canton, Ohio v. Harris, 489 U.S. 378 (1989)

JurisdictionUnited States

CourtSupreme Court of the United States

Year1989

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A municipality's failure to train its employees can ground § 1983 liability only where the inadequacy of training amounts to 'deliberate indifference' to the constitutional rights of persons with whom those employees come into contact.

Area of Law

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