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· 4/18/2024

Lance Duncan v. Fernando Bustos and Bustos Law Firm, P.C.

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  • concluding that it was reasonable to approach a suspect's home to attempt to learn more through consensual questioning
  • holding that officials' \affirmative actions\ must \directly increase the vulnerability of citizens to danger or otherwise place citizens in harm's way\
  • concluding that the deliberate-indifference standard applied to the plaintiffs' substantive due process claim because the defendants not only had sufficient time to deliberate about their actions, but also engaged in deliberative actions
  • holding that officials’ “affirmative actions” must “directly increase the vulnerability of citizens to danger or otherwise place citizens in harm’s way”
  • concluding that it was reasonable to approach a suspect’s home to attempt to learn more through consensual questioning
  • holding that the plaintiff “must demonstrate that the state acted No. 13-3119 Shreve et al. v. Franklin Cnty., Ohio et al. Page 13 with the requisite culpability to establish a substantive due process violation under the Fourteenth Amendment”

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