Kaucher v. County of Bucks

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming summary judg- ment for defendants on corrections officer’s substantive due process claim that dangerous conditions at jail caused dangerous infection
• “The fourth element of the state created danger test asks whether a defendant exercised his or her authority to create a foreseeably dangerous situation.”
• “[A] specific and deliberate exercise of state authority, while necessary to satisfy the fourth element of the test, is not sufficient. There must be a direct causal relationship between the affirmative act of the state and plaintiffs harm.”
• “negligent behavior can never rise to the level of conscience shocking”
• “An issue is genuine only if there is a sufficient evidentiary basis on which a reasonable jury could find for the non-moving party, and a factual dispute is material only if it might affect the outcome of the suit under governing law.”

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