Sandage v. Board of Com'rs of Vanderburgh County

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that there is a due process violation only when “the victim is safe before the state intervenes and unsafe afterward”
• noting that this element is satisfied when the plaintiff was safe before the state acted but unsafe after it acted
• “If all that were required was a causal relation between inaction and harm, the rule of DeShaney would be undone.”
• “The technical question was whether the State of Colorado had created a property right in the enforcement of restraining orders.”
• “No one has a federal constitutional right to have another person jailed . . . .”
• “If all that were required was a causal relation between inaction and harm, the rule of DeShaney would be undone . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).