Gerald G. Schaefer and Lyla Schaefer v. Fred J. Goch and Marathon County

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• holding that no seizure occurred when a police officer shot at a suspect and hit a hostage
• holding that the hostage was not seized but not addressing the shot itself
• holding that even if a bystander was 3 seized when she complied with a police order to get down, that seizure ended when the suspect 4 started to drag her inside a home while brandishing a gun
• applying Lewis where woman was shot during heated standoff between police and husband
• finding no substantive due process violation when officers shot a woman to death on her own front steps during a standoff with the woman’s No. 06-3174 27 husband
• “The sine qua non of liability in cases analogous to high-speed chases . . . is ‘a purpose to cause harm.’ ” (quoting Lewis, 523 U.S. at 836)

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