Livsey v. Salt Lake County

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that we usually “[t]ak[e] the district court at its word”
• rejecting claims against county because the individual officer had not violated constitutional right to privacy or substantive due process of surviving wife and children
• declining to expand right to privacy to all information of “behavior arguably reflected on the marital relationship”
• which recognizes that a legitimate expectation of privacy may exist in “information pertaining ... to highly personal sexual behavior”
• “The defendants' conduct, however ill-advised, inappropriate, or ill-considered it might have been, does not “shock the conscience of federal judges”
• defendants’ actions did not violate constitutional rights and could not have caused the county to be held liable based on their actions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).