Legal Opinion
Hill Stokes v. Willie Bullins
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 10, 1988No. 87-4094PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
The issue before us in this bench-tried police brutality case is whether a municipality was grossly negligent in hiring the defendant police officer and, if so, whether its gross negligence subjects it to liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We affirm the district court judgment exonerating Jones-town from liability.
BACKGROUND
On December 10, 1982, Willie Bullins and W.B. Williams, two Jonestown, Mississippi police officers, stopped Hill Stokes to execute an arrest warrant issued for contempt of court for failure to pay a $30 traffic fine. The officers gave Stokes…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Pembaur v. City of CincinnatiSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Rizzo v. GoodeSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Monroe v. PapeSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- City of Oklahoma v. TuttleSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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3Cited by59 opinions
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- Keenan v. TejedaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2002
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