Martinez v. Cui

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the “shocks-the-conscience” test “governs all substantive due process claims based on executive . . . action”
• stating that an individual’s interests are defined against the government’s competing legitimate interests in a variety of contexts
• stating that a claim alleging infringement by a state officer of the right to bodily integrity is “appropriately characterized ... as a Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process claim”
• recognizing the Second Circuit in Larson as one of the Courts of Appeals that has instructed its district courts to apply a more inclusive standard in its Rule 403 analysis of Rule 415 evidence
• excluding evidence in part because it would lead to a “mini-trial” with “the potential for confusion of the issues and for unfair prejudice”
• rejecting any sort of “special rules constraining district courts’ usual exercise of discretion under FRE 403 when considering evidence under Rule 415,” including those announced in LeMay

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