United States Fifth Circuit

In claims by family of a suspect shot by police, eleven incidents offering equivocal evidence of compliance with the Fourth Amendment cannot support a pattern of illegal searches by city police, and any such "pattern" was not widespread enough to impute constructive knowledge to policymakers; claim of inadequate training not actionable where evidence was insufficient.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/09/2002
• Published 05/09/2002

Judges

• PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and GARWOOD and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Russell Stanley Post (argued), Richard Phillips Hogan, Jr., Roger Dale Townsen, Jennifer Bruch Hogan, Hogan, Dubose & Townsend, Richard Warren Mithoff, Mithoff & Jacks, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert L. Cambrice, Andrea Chan, Asst. City Atty. (argued), The City of Houston Legal Dept., Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.