United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of summary judgment of defendant-police officer's motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit is affirmed where defendant violated plaintiff's Fourteenth Amendment right to substantive due process under the "state-created danger" doctrine.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/07/2006
• Published 03/07/2006

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.