Isaac Russ and Vera Love v. Van B. Watts, Phillip Banazkiewicz, City of Chicago, and Robert Helson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Fourteenth Amendment does not provide a claim for loss of society for parents whose adult son was killed by police
• holding that parents may sue only for constitutional injury to themselves, not for constitutional injuries to their son
• holding that there was no recognized constitutional right to recover for the loss of companionship of an adult child when that relationship was terminated as an incidental result of state action
• Observing several circuits have been “reluctant to ex- tend the constitutional protections afforded the parent-child relationship to cases involving adult children.”
• declining to recognize a “constitutional right to recover for the loss of the companionship of an adult child” where the parent-child relationship “is terminated as an incidental result of state action”
• Observing several circuits have been “reluctant to ex- tend the constitutional protections afforded the parent-child relationship to cases involving adult children.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).