Sherry Jones v. Union County, Tennessee Union County Sheriff's Department

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “failure to serve [an] ex parte order of protection did not create or increase the danger posed to Plaintiff by her ex-husband, or place her specifically at risk”
• noting that a state-created danger arises when the state, or an agent thereof, affirmatively acts to expose an individual to potential danger
• failing to serve a protection order on an abusive spouse was not an affirmative act
• failing to serve an ex parte protection order on an abusive spouse was not an affirmative act
• police failure to serve an ex parte order of protection in a timely manner
• “[A] violation of a state statute does not create a liberty interest or property right under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).