DePoutot v. Raffaelly

How courts have described this case

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• finding that substantive due process claim against police officer involved executive branch action that warranted application of the shocks-the-conscience standard
• noting that the requisite level of arbitrariness and caprice “must be stunning” and that even bad faith violations of state law do not necessarily amount to substantive due process violations
• in order to shock the conscience, conduct must at the very least be “extreme and egregious”
• “Mere violations of state law, even violations resulting from bad faith, do not necessarily amount to unconstitutional deprivations of substantive due process.”
• “Mere violations of state law, even violations resulting from bad faith, do not necessarily amount to unconstitutional deprivations of substantive due process.”
• “In its substantive aspect, due process safeguards individuals against certain offensive government actions, notwithstanding that facially fair procedures are used to implement them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).