Koulta v. Merciez

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing denial of qualified immunity to officers who encountered a drunk driver and let her go before she later was involved in a fatal crash because the officer’s actions “did not ‘create’ or ‘increase’ the danger” of her drinking and driving
• “And much as the officers were in a position to head off the tragedy that materialized minutes later . . . their conduct was [not] an affirmative risk-creating act.”
• “Rather than focusing on the often metaphysical question of whether officer behavior amounts to affirmative conduct or not, we have focused on ‘whether [the victim] was safer before the state action than he was after it.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).