Phyllis May, Administratrix of the Estate of Deborah Kirk, Deceased v. Franklin County Commissioners

How courts have described this case

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• “[W]e decline to interpret the Due Process Clause in such a manner as to discourage law enforcement officers from responding to requests for assistance.”
• “May abandoned her equal protection claim in the district court, and that issue is not involved in this appeal.”
• “[W]e decline to interpret the Due Process Clause in such a manner as to discourage law enforcement officers from responding to requests for assistance.”
• “[W]e decline to interpret the Due Process Clause in such a manner as to discourage law enforcement officers from responding to requests for assistance.”
• victim died in an ambulance after sustaining gunshot wounds in barroom brawl
• act of dispatching officers to the scene of a domestic dispute did not increase the risk of harm to the victim and thus did not constitute an affirmative act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).