Dufek Massif Hospital Corporation and Edward T. Laborde, Jr. v. SHC Services, Inc., D/B/A Supplemental Health Care

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• holding that the danger to which the state exposed a group of protesters was sufficiently particularized to support a state-created-danger claim
• holding that, to face liability, the government’s employee must (1
• stating that substantive due process claims “require[] a culpable mental state . . . higher than gross negligence” (citation and quotation marks omitted)
• finding that it is plaintiff’s burden to “point to prior case law that articulates a constitutional rule specific enough to alert these 22 [Defendants] in this case that their particular conduct was unlawful”
• denying qualified immunity to officers who directed attendees of a political rally toward a violent crowd of protesters
• finding officers 7 engaged in affirmative acts increasing danger at rally by actively preventing attendees from 8 leaving through alternative exits and directing them to leave through a single exit into a 9 crowd of violent protesters

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