U.S. Appeals Court: FAILURE TO TRAIN.

• Position: Prisoners and prisons - Brief Article

Lee v. County of Los Angeles, 240 F.3d 754(9th Cir. 2001). A former prisoner and his mother sued under [sections] 1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) alleging that city and county officials ignored the prisoner's obvious mental incapacitation and failed to take steps to identify him before arresting him under a warrant issued for a fugitive with the same name. The prisoner had been extradited to New York and was incarcerated for two years before the error was discovered. The...