United States Eighth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on a sheriff's alleged failure to provide sexual harassment training to a subordinate, judgment for plaintiff is reversed where: 1) the Arkansas Code did not impose a duty on the county to train its officers not to sexually assault detainees; and 2) there was nothing in the record suggesting that defendant received any notice of a pattern of unconstitutional acts committed by any of his subordinates.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/10/2010
• Published 02/10/2010

Judges

• BEAM, Circuit Judge., Before MELLOY, BEAM, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Clyde Burt Newell, argued, Hot Springs, AR, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Alston Newcomb, argued, Little Rock, AR, for appellee.