Dowdy v. Hawfield

How courts have described this case

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• “some degree of government fault is necessary ... [but] to predicate liability under section 1983 totally on the mere degree of fault would be to convert the due process clause into an ordinary tort statute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).