Peggy Poe v. John Leonard, Defendant-Third Party-Plaintiff-Appellant, Douglas Pearl, State of Connecticut, Third-Party-Defendant

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• concluding that “mere negligence is insufficient as a matter of law to state a claim under section 1983”
• holding that negligence is insufficient to support a finding of liability under two definitions of personal involvement that expressly require gross negligence or deliberate indifference
• holding that substantive due process governs plaintiff's claim of violation of her constitutional right to privacy
• holding that the surreptitious videotaping of an officer undressing by fellow officers was actionable as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s substantive-due-process “right to privacy in _ one’s unclothed body”
• noting that the Fourth Amendment applies in “a criminal investigation or other form of governmental investigation or activity”
• holding that qualified immunity should protect a supervisor who began working three years after a subordinate’s indiscretions, when his role would not have cause him to be aware of such indiscretions and there was no agency policy requiring him to review the subordinate’s personnel files

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