In a civil case brought by a plaintiff, who alleges that the county failed to properly train for the purpose of enforcing her civil rights, is a county liable for the violation of her constitutional rights?

The district court rejected liability for the county, in part, because plaintiff "asserts here not a repeated course of conduct, but only an isolated incident." Owens v. Haas, 456 F.Supp. 1009, 1012 (E.D.N.Y.1978). While some causal link must be made between the county's failure to train and the violation of constitutional rights, a single brutal incident such as this may be sufficient to suggest that link. As noted in Leite, supra, 463 F.Supp. at 590-91: