# John Languirand, Cross-Appellant v. John Hayden, an Individual, City of Pass Christian, Etc., Cross-Appellee

> Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · October 17, 1983 · 717 F.2d 220

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9471174

## Case

- **Full name:** John LANGUIRAND, Plaintiff-Appellee Cross-Appellant, v. John HAYDEN, an Individual, Defendant, City of Pass Christian, Etc., Defendant-Appellant Cross-Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- **Decided:** October 17, 1983
- **Citations:** 717 F.2d 220; 70 A.L.R. Fed. 1; 1983 U.S. App. LEXIS 16009
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Goldberg
- **Judges:** Goldberg, Williams, Garwood
- **Cited by:** 137 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that in failure-to-train cases, the plaintiff must establish a pattern of similar incidents in which citizens were injured or endangered by intentional or negligent police misconduct, or that serious incompetence or misbehavior was general or widespread throughout the …
- holding that, in failure-to-train cases, the plaintiff must establish a pattern of similar incidents in which citizens were injured or endangered by intentional or negligent police misconduct or that serious incompetence or misbehavior was general or widespread throughout the …
- reversing jury verdict rendered under failure to train theory where there was no evidence of prior incidents to support a finding that municipal policymakers were "consciously indifferent" to constitutional rights
- observing that plaintiffs bringing § 1983 actions alleging police misconduct “must show that the defendant was adequately put on notice of prior misbehavior”

## Opinion text

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge, specially
concurring:
I concur in the result.

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