Cruz-Erazo v. Rivera-Montanez

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• holding that even more severe verbal harassment, including alleged death threats by police officers, did not shock the conscience
• holding that verbal harassment by police officers did not shock the conscience because it was not physically intrusive or violent, nor did it strike at any protected relationship, such as between a parent and child
• concluding that police officers’ wrongful conduct — including alleged perjured testimony in a court proceeding — did not arise to the standard of shocking the conscience for a substantive due process claim
• holding that months of harassment by police officers, which included threats of physical violence, insults, and the filing of unjustified charges, did not rise to the level of conduct that shocks the conscience
• holding that months of harassment by police officers, which included threats of physical violence, insults, and the filing of unjustified charges, did not rise to the level of conduct that shocks the conscience
• holding that allegations that police officers engaged in a months-long campaign of harassment of plaintiffs and deliberately perjured themselves in official court proceedings failed to allege a claim for denial of substantive due process

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).