Estate of Bennett v. Wainwright

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• affirming summary judgment on § 1983 conspiracy claim where a reasonable jury could not have inferred a conspiracy to inflict harm on plaintiff
• affirming grant of summary judgment on Equal Protection claim when plaintiff’s pleadings did not compare treatment of plaintiff to treatment of any person similarly situated
• upholding as reasonable a warrantless entry into a home to take “protective custody” of a mentally ill person who had stopped taking his prescribed medication and had verbally threatened his mother
• even though “conspiracy is a matter of inference, summary judgment may still be appropriate on a conspiracy claim where the nonmoving party rests merely on conclusory allegations”
• “[A] reasonable officer under the circumstances could have reasonably believed . . . that entering the house without first obtaining a warrant or express consent was necessary to prevent injury to Bennett himself, and to the family members present inside.”

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