Keith Leslie v. William Doyle

How courts have described this case

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• “even if [Plaintiff] could maintain a claim of straight substantive due process, his deprivation did not impinge upon a liberty interest under Sandin.”
• “the Constitution does not create a cause of action for arbitrary and purposeless acts by officials per se, it prohibits the abuse of power that effects a significant deprivation.”
• an abuse of power that “shocks the conscience” supports a substantive due process claim
• “Perhaps a useful approach is to say that a frame-up or malicious prosecution is in and of itself an inchoate breach of substantive due process, which matures into a viable claim if the consequences are sufficiently severe.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).