Read Kennedy v. City of Ridgefield, 03-35333

In a section 1983 suit, the district court correctly determined that defendant-police officer is not entitled to qualified immunity since he violated plaintiff's Fourteenth Amendment right to substantive due process under the "state-created danger" doctrine.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/23/2005
• Published 06/23/2005

Judges

• BROWNING, Circuit Judge:, Before: BROWNING, TASHIMA, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John R. Connelly, Jr., Darrell L. Cochran and Lincoln C. Beauregard, Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson & Daheim, Tacoma, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellees., Ray P. Cox, Forsberg & Umlauf, Seattle, WA, for the defendants-appellants.