Florida Public Utilities Co. v. City of West Palm Beach

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• in the context of a “failure to act” claim, “the individual School Board members cannot ‘act’ independently.”
• “The substantive component of the Due Process Clause protects students against abusive governmental power as exercised by a school.”
• “A ‘duty’ under ‘color of law’ must be a distinct element of a section 1983 case alleging a ‘failure to act[,]’” and “[i]n the absence of a duty there is no section 1983 liability because the failure to act cannot be said to have occurred under color of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).