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· 3/23/2020

Delacruz v. United States

Citations

  • 140 S. Ct. 2550
  • 206 L. Ed. 2d 485

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that “[t]he substantive component of the Due Process Clause . . . secures the right to be free of state- occasioned damage to a person’s bodily integrity” and noting that Dobbs did not impact this precedent (citation modified)
  • acknowledging that Dobbs left undisturbed the right to bodily integrity
  • noting both cases where uniformed officers were not held to act under color of law and those in which plainclothes officers were
  • finding depute violated plaintiff’s right to bodily integrity by ordering her to strip and expose her genitals while he masturbated to her naked body
  • rejecting qualified immunity; sheriff’s deputy used welfare check as pretense to force woman to “strip [to] her privates, to manually manipulate her genitals, and to remain exposed while he masturbated”
  • rejecting qualified immunity; sheriff’s deputy used welfare check as pretense to force woman to “strip [to] her privates, to manually manipulate her genitals, and to remain exposed while he masturbated”

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