Jantzen Verastique, et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas, et al.
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Whether Leatherman v. Tarrant County precedent applies to deliberate indifference claims under § 1983 and whether pattern of constitutional violations requires factually identical prior incidents
QUESTIONS PRESENTED The Questions Presented are: I. Whether this Court’s holding in Leatherman v. Tarrant Cnty. Narcotics Intel. and Coordination Unit, 507 U.S. 163 (1993) is applicable to a § 1983 pleading in which deliberate indifference of a governmental entity is asserted because of a pattern of constitutional violations committed by the same officer. I. Whether the similarity requirement to show an actionable pattern of constitutional violations under this Court’s interpretation of § 1983’s deliberate indifference in Connick v. Thompson, 563 U.S. 51 (2011) only requires the same _ constitutional violations committed in the same way, or whether those previous actions must be factually identical. i