Dianne Troupe v. Sarasota County, Florida

How courts have described this case

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• concluding defendant’s actions were not the proximate cause of plaintiffs’ injuries where there was an independent intervening cause (citing Dixon, 303 F.3d at 1275)
• finding no causation in a § 1983 case where ―the continuum between Defendant‘s action and the ultimate harm is occupied by the conduct of deliberative and autonomous decision-makers‖
• granting summary judgment to officer who shot at plaintiffs and missed because plaintiffs were not seized and could not establish an excessive force claim
• finding that 3–5 seconds was a short enough time for the use of deadly force to stop someone who previously endangered police and bystanders even if, in hindsight, the facts show that members of the S.W.A.T. Team could have escaped unharmed
• affirming district court’s conclusion on summary judgment that the defendants’ actions did not proximately cause the plaintiffs’ injuries due to an independent intervening cause
• finding no causation in a § 1983 case where “the continuum between Defendant’s action and the ultimate harm is occupied by the conduct of deliberative and autonomous decision-makers”

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