Newman v. Beard

How courts have described this case

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

• “[C]onduct can violate substantive due process if it shocks the conscience, which encompasses only the most egregious official conduct.”
• “Conduct can violate substantive due process if it shocks the conscience, which encompasses only the most egregious official conduct.”
• rejecting claim based on First Amendment right to free speech
• “The two amendments serve different purposes. The Fifth Amendment protects the right not to ‘be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against oneself,’ while the First Amendment protects, among other things, ‘the right to refrain from speaking at all.’” (internal alterations omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).