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· 2/16/2005

Brandon Tun v. Joselyn Whitticker and Judith Platz

Citations

  • 398 F.3d 899
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 2647

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that government conduct implicating substantive due process “is most often described as an abuse of government power which ‘shocks the conscience.’ ”
  • listing “assaultive behavior, porno peddling, drug selling, [and] gun-toting” among “serious matters that can cause real problems in a high school”
  • “Although individual school district employees overreacted and gave overly broad reading to district’s behavior code, their actions did not rise to conscience-shocking level”
  • “Cases abound in which the government action—though thoroughly disapproved of—was found not to shock the conscience.”
  • “Cases abound in which the government action—though thoroughly disapproved of—was found not to shock the conscience.”
  • even \abhorrent\ behavior by officials does not necessarily shock the conscience

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cudahy, Kanne, Evans

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