Peete v. Metropolitan Government Of Nashville And Davidson County

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that paramedics who asphyxiated their unconscious patient “were attempting to help him, although they badly botched the job”
• holding that the defendants’ actions of restraining the seizure victim without leaving a clear passage for him to breathe did not expose him to private acts of violence
• discussing the private acts of violence requirement only when analyzing the state created danger exception
• explaining the state- created danger theory is unavailable where the state actors’ incompetent medical care did not expose decedent to private act of violence
• granting qualified immunity to 20 paramedics responding to a call about epileptic seizures because, although their restraints ultimately killed the patient, they were attempting to provide medical aid
• state-created danger theory unavailable where state actors’ incompetent medical care did not expose decedent to private act of violence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).