Opinion ID: 4534911
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Hiring Policy

Text: Focusing first on hiring, we affirm the district court’s dismissal of Laura’s hiring policy claim without hesitation. Viewing Jeffrey’s 2009 hiring as a “single incident policy” of inadequate screening, Laura’s factual assertions regarding “deliberate indifference” and “moving force causation” are inadequate to state a legally viable claim for municipal liability. In other words, the allegations of the second amended complaint do not reasonably support an inference that “it should have been apparent [to Chief Clendennen] that the constitutional violations suffered by Laura were the ‘highly predictable consequence’” of the Chief’s lackluster screening practices 4 Chief May replaced Chief Clendennen in September 2011. 12 Case: 18-20723 Document: 00515418348 Page: 13 Date Filed: 05/15/2020 No. 18-20723 relative to a former employee seeking to return to the MPD or that Chief Clendennen purposely chose to ignore that risk. For similar reasons, Laura’s assertions fail to establish any connection between Chief Clendennen’s hiring practice deficiencies and the constitutional violations she suffered, much less the “moving force” direct causation that is required.