American Continental Corp. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• noting that Collins \unanimously reaffirmed the viability of the `shocks the conscience' standard\
• noting that Collins “unanimously reaffirmed the viability of the ‘shocks the conscience’ standard”
• noting that Collins \unanimously reaffirmed the viability of the `shocks the conscience' standard\
• “the substantive component of the Due Process Clause can only be violated by government employees when their conduct amounts to an abuse of official power that ‘shocks the conscience.’”
• “The first step in construing such a limitation is a 23 determination of the function of the means-plus-function limitation. The next step is to 24 determine the corresponding structure described in the specification and equivalents 25 thereof.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).