United States Tenth Circuit

A substantive due process claim, based on police officers' failure to enforce a restraining order, is not actionable where refusal to enforce the order did not affirmatively create or enhance any danger. Claimant effectively alleged a procedural due process claim with respect to her entitlement to enforcement of the order by every reasonable means.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/15/2002
• Published 10/15/2002

Judges

• SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, SEYMOUR, EBEL, KELLY, HENRY, BRISCOE, LUCERO, MURPHY, HARTZ, O'BRIEN, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brian J. Reichel, Attorney, Thornton, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Carolynne White, Staff Attorney, Colorado Municipal League;  Thomas J. Lyons, Hall & Evans, LLC, Denver, CO;  and Julie C. Tolleson, Kennedy & Christopher, PC, Denver, CO, on the brief for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas S. Rice, Senter Goldfarb & Rice, L.L.C. (Eric M. Ziporin, Senter, Goldfarb & Rice, L.L.C. and Christina M. Habas, Bruno, Bruno & Colin, P.C., with him on the brief), Denver, CO, for Defendants-Appellees.