How have courts interpreted "deliberate indifference" in assessing whether a municipality acted with deliberate indifference in a tort action?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Bowlin v. Yuba Cnty. Sheriff, No. 2:16-cv-2934 KJN P (E.D. Cal. 2017):
municipality acted with "deliberate indifference." Id. The "deliberate indifference" term in this context is used "for the quite different purpose of identifying the threshold for holding a city responsible for the constitutional torts committed by its inadequately trained agents." Collins v. City of Harker Heights, Tex., 503 U.S. 115, 124 (1992).
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