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· 5/12/1997

Boveri v. The Town of Saugus

Citations

  • 113 F.3d 4
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 10708
  • 1997 WL 228930

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding regulatory violations are not “inherently sufficient to support a § 1983 claim”
  • Police officers pursuing suspects may be forced to make instantaneous judgments that can affect the safety of innocent bystanders
  • “A regulatory violation, like a violation of state law, is not inherently sufficient to support a § 1983 claim.”
  • reckless, high-speed, police car chase resulting in physical injuries did not violate substantive due process
  • no constitutional right to counsel in Section 1983 action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Torruella, Selya, Boudin

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